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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The militia decision in Petersburg. (search)
of a Confederate officer holding chief command in the place for whose defence those troops were called out. The supply of rations by the Confederate authorities is explained by the fact that, as these troops were called out by the Governor at the request of the President, the Confederate States would be bound to reimburse all expenses to the State, and it was thought best to advance them in the first instance. Act of Congress, April 20, 1818, (3 St. at Large, 444.) Opinion of Attorney General Gilpin, May 1, 1840. The view which I have taken of the case makes it unnecessary to consider the objection taken by the Attorney-General to my Jurisdiction, founded on the 2d section of the act of February 5, 1863. I incline to think, however, that if the proper authority fail or refuse to organize a Board of Exemption the party claiming his exemption would be entitled to have the question tried upon habeas corpus, without being obliged to await the result of a mandamus to compel th