CIVIL WAR: AMERICAN BASTILE. A HISTORY. THE ARBITRARY ARRESTS AND IMPRISONMENT OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN THE NORTHERN AND BORDER STATES, ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR POLITICAL OPINIONS, DURING THE LATE CIVIL WAR. CD-WIN/MACAuthor: John A. Marshall
Pages: 877
Pub. Date: (1883) 2008
Marshall has gathered about a hundred accounts of persons imprisoned during the Civil War on suspicion of plans to fight for the South or conspire against the North. The narratives contain details of the arrest of the suspect, the conditions during imprisonment and the attempts to obtain release.
During the Civil War the Constitutional guarantee of habeas corpus was suspended under certain circumstances and many individuals were arrested for varying amounts of time when they were suspected of participating in activities aimed against the North. The accounts gathered here describe the tribulations of many persons caught up in these arrests. In many instances, the arrests resulted in no trials and in the eventual release of the prisoners.
These stories are for the most part narratives provided by the arrested party or a close associate, but in a number of the accounts letters and official documents are also fully transcribed.
The volume concludes with full transcripts of testimony and other documents generated at the trial of Mrs. Mary E. Surratt, implicated in aiding and abetting the assassination of President Lincoln.
Summary by Robert Charles Anderson, FASG
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The CD includes high-quality images of every page as originally published (not just a transcript) and is fully searchable using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 5 or later recommended) on any Windows, Macintosh, or Unix computer. The data on this CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation.
This electronic book includes high-quality images of every page as originally published (not just a transcript) and is fully searchable using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 4 or later recommended) on any Windows, Macintosh, or Unix computer. The data files are completely self-contained, and require no installation.
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