Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror (Stewart L. Winger, Johnathan W. White - AR) jackon DAVID SULLIVAN

DAVID SULLIVAN

even historians sympathetic to Lincoln have found it necessary to apologize for his administration’s record on civil liberties during the Civil War

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Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror (Stewart L. Winger, Johnathan W. White - AR) jackon DAVID SULLIVANEdited by: Jonathan W White & Stewart L Winger Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror At the very end of the Civil War, a military court convicted Lambdin P. Milligan and his coconspirators in Indiana of fomenting a general insurrection and sentenced them to hang. On appeal, in Ex parte Milligan the US Supreme Court sided with the conspirators, ruling that it was unconstitutional