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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 21: practice of the law. (search)
n that case. It was a leading case upon those questions and affected the title of real property to the value of many millions. The case brought me somewhat before the people of the Western country, and I have had occasion to argue quite a number of cases since involving questions of Mexican law. This, I belie e, has not happened to any other New England lawyer, certainly not to the extent it has to me. I was employed by Mr. Speed, the Attorney-General of the United States, to assist Mr. Stansbury in the argument of the case of Milligan vs. the United States. This case involved questions of new and untried law in this country, and which had not been distinctly settled anywhere else. The case was this :-- There was a body of quasi-secessionists in Indiana and the adjoining States known as the Knights of the Golden Circle. Milligan was a member of that body and there was an. accusation made against him of being a party to a conspiracy to release the Confederate prisoners of wa
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
, 378-505; placed on Relief Committee, 388; treacherous conduct of, 391. Speech, Butler's, at Lowell in ten-hour law election contest, 100, 105. speed, Attorney-General of the United States, 1007. Spottsylvania Court-House, Grant's march to, 647; reference to battle, 710. spring Hill, occupied by Hinks, 642. Stackpole, Maj. J. L., on Butler's staff, 897. Stafford, Col. S. H., on Butler's staff, 896. Stanbury, Attorney-General, counsel for President Johnson, 929-930. Stansbury, on Milligan vs. United States case, 1007. Stafford, Colonel, 496. Stanton, E. M., interview with before starting for New Orleans, 335-336; notified of need of provisions at Ship Island, 358; commands Butler's course at New Orleans, 386-387; writes Halleck regarding Vicksburg, 456; Stanton, E. M., letter from Halleck refusing Farragut aid, 457; Sumner's letters, 522; interview with, upon return from New Orleans,533; relations with McClellan, 573, 576; approves prison retaliation pl