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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Appointment of Attorney General. (search)
, was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863.--While in the service he was elected as a Justice of the Peace in the county of Orange, and regularly qualified as such. On this qualification he applied for a discharge from the service. This was refused him. He then applied for a writ of habeas corpusbefore Judge Meredith, of this city. It was agreed by the counsel of Brooking, (John H. Gilmer, Esq.,) and the counsel for the Confederate States Government,(Messrs. T. Neeson and T. P. August,) that the merits of the case should be considered and decided on an argument for the application. The argument on the application was then heard fully on all the legal points, and the learned Judge awarded the writ, and yesterday, in Court, discharged Brooking from the service. We understand the argument on the application was very full and earnest on both sides. The case turned on the judicial construction of the conscript act of 1862, March 16,as to exemptions, and the act of th