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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
rritory, but his proposition was rejected. Mr. Stanton, of Tennessee, then asked for a law that thcomposed of Messrs. Black, Dix, Holt, Toucey, Stanton and King, who served in apparent harmony to ticative expedients for which Mr. Seward and Mr. Stanton had no equals. Mr. Cox punctured the theorl as Confederate soldiers was the policy of Mr. Stanton, the secretary of war. In the speech he stated positively that he had been ordered by Mr. Stanton to put forward the negro question to compliof these Union soldiers were due alone to Edwin M. Stanton's peculiar policy and dogged obstinacy. of General Grant, and by the reports of Secretary Stanton, all of which are of record, fix the resof war upon the Federal administration. Secretary Stanton's report of July 19, 1866, shows that 26on their note reached the Secretary of War, Mr. Stanton, and the same day was at once referred to Prian. The United States secretary of war, Mr. Stanton, reports that Grant's available force at th[3 more...]
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
sition, which he held during the continuance of hostilities, he earned the respect of all parties by his earnest and humane efforts to effect the exchange of brave and suffering prisoners, and his careful attention to all the details of his office. At Appomattox he tendered his parole to General Grant, who declined to treat him as a prisoner, not regarding an officer of exchange as liable to capture, and sent him under safeguard to Richmond. He was subsequently imprisoned by order of Secretary Stanton, indicted for treason and tried by a military commission, which was compelled under the law to acquit him. He then resumed the practice of law at Richmond, Va. The misrepresentations which abounded during the first decade after the war elicited several able papers from his pen, which will remain as authoritative regarding the efforts made by the Confederate authorities to lessen the suffering caused by war. The proof has been fully made that the Confederate government fully and fairly