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    “Miscellanous [Faux] Americana (Part II) — John Merryman: Time Traveller”

    Posted by Jonathan on January 14th, 2016 (All posts by )

    From Seth Barrett Tillman.

    (Part 1 is here.)

     

    This entry was posted on Thursday, January 14th, 2016 at 1:47 pm and is filed under History, Law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    7 Responses to ““Miscellanous [Faux] Americana (Part II) — John Merryman: Time Traveller””

    1. Grurray Says:
      January 14th, 2016 at 3:59 pm

      “during the April riots.”

      We saw the same thing in Illinois with Confederate sympathizers and guerrillas fighting an open insurgency. The entire southern part of the state and most of Missouri were hostile territory (it still is in many ways), and Union troops garrisoned across the state line in Terre Haute were regularly sent in to suppress rebellion, often defying court orders. All throughout the war there were dueling decrees between military tribunals and Democratic judges. The courts in Southern Illinois were openly supportive of the insurgents, especially after 1863 when the legislature was dissolved for three years.

    2. Grurray Says:
      January 14th, 2016 at 5:16 pm

      Another habeas corpus case has made the news recently

      http://www.crimeandconsequences.com/crimblog/2016/01/an-nyt-hatchet-job-on-ted-cruz.html

      with David Brooks recent hit piece comparing Ted Cruz to Pharisees and pagans and Lord knows what else. It’s an interesting, complicated case. Cruz was arguing the federal district court shouldn’t be able to override the circuit court in certain obscure circumstances of the law

      https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/541/386/

    3. dearieme Says:
      January 15th, 2016 at 10:30 am

      As I write, his comments thread had realised that “telephone” was wrong but hadn’t spotted that “dynamite” was wrong too.

    4. Michael Hiteshew Says:
      January 15th, 2016 at 11:49 am

      He also was not in the cavalry. He was not even in the army.

    5. Grurray Says:
      January 15th, 2016 at 11:51 am

      When the war started, operation of the telegraph was nationalized and placed under the control of the War Department. Cutting telegraph lines constituted an act of war, and it was a favored tactic used be advance Confederate forces during Lee’s Antietam Campaign.

    6. Grurray Says:
      January 15th, 2016 at 12:05 pm

      “He also was not in the cavalry. He was not even in the army.”

      His wikipedia page says lieutenant in the Baltimore County Horse Guards. Must be a local militia.

      During the war it was usually irregular marauders and guerrillas tasked with cutting telegraph lines. The raids required attacking on horseback, so some might charitably characterize them as cavalry.

    7. Richard Says:
      January 16th, 2016 at 3:31 am

      Recommended reading: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2646888

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