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Milligan, case of
On Oct. 5, 1864, Lambdin P. Milligan, while at home in Indiana, was arrested, with others, for treasonable designs, by order of Gen. Alvin P. Hovey, commanding the military district of Indiana; on Oct. 21 brought before a military commission convened at Indianapolis by General Hovey, tried on certain charges and specifications, found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged, Friday, May 19, 1865.
The proceedings of the military commission closed in January, 1865.
When the circuit court of the United States met at Indianapolis in January, 1865, the grand jury did not indict Milligan, who then petitioned the court to be brought before it and tried by jury or released.
With the petition was filed the order appointing the commission, the charges, finding of the commission, with the order from the War Department reciting that the sentence was approved by the President, and directing that the sentence be carried out without delay.
The judges differed on three questions:
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), St. Regis, skirmish at (search)
St. Regis, skirmish at
On each side of the boundary-line between the United States and Canada is the Indian village of St. Regis, at the mouth of the St. Regis River.
In that village Captain McDonnell was placed, with some armed Canadian voyageurs, in September, 1812. Maj. G. D. Young, stationed at French Mills (afterwards Fort Covington), left that post on the night of Oct. 21 with about 200 men, crossed the St. Regis in a boat, a canoe, and on a hastily constructed raft, and before dawn was within half a mile of St. Regis.
There they were rested and refreshed, and soon afterwards pushed forward and surrounded the town.
Assailing the block-house, a sharp skirmish ensued, in which the British lost seven men killed, while not an American was hurt.
The spoils of victory were forty prisoners (exclusive of the commander and the Roman Catholic priest), with their arms and accoutrements, thirty-eight muskets, two bateaux, a flag, and a quantity of baggage, including 800 blankets.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stone , Charles Pomeroy 1824 -1887 (search)
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