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Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for Lambdin P. Milligan or search for Lambdin P. Milligan in all documents.
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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 distLambdin 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, Frid 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 ons: (1) Whether on the facts submitted a writ of habeas corpus should be issued; (2) Whether Milligan ought to be discharged; (3) Whether the military commission had acted within its jurisdiction; ns in time of war; but all concurred in the answers given to the three questions submitted, and Milligan was released.
The decision of the court overthrew the whole doctrine of military arrest and tr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)