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Tag: Habeas Corpus

Keep Your Rowdies in Baltimore

April 27, 2021 WalterCoffey

Maryland legislators reject secession as President Lincoln controversially suspends the writ of habeas corpus in areas surrounding the state.

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Davis Urges Suspension of Habeas Corpus

February 3, 2019 WalterCoffey

February 3, 1864 – President Jefferson Davis delivered a message to Congress asking for the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. By this

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The Vallandigham Affair Continues

June 11, 2018 WalterCoffey

June 11, 1863 – Exiled Copperhead Clement L. Vallandigham was nominated to run for governor of Ohio, and President Abraham Lincoln issued a response to

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Lincoln Banishes Vallandigham

May 19, 2018 WalterCoffey

May 19, 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln directed Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to banish former Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham to the South for

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Final Legislation of the 37th U.S. Congress

March 3, 2018 WalterCoffey

March 3, 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln reviewed several bills and signed many into law as the lame-duck session of the Thirty-seventh U.S. Congress ended.

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President Lincoln’s 1862 Message to Congress

December 1, 2017 WalterCoffey

December 1, 1862 – The second session of the lame duck Thirty-seventh U.S. Congress assembled at Washington and received President Abraham Lincoln’s annual message. By

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