. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . r a prisoner of war, nor aperson not in the military or naval service. Among the otherpoints decided was that the suspension of the privilege of thewrit of habeas corpus did not suspend the writ itself. This casewas important, as according to it hundreds of trials by militarycommission in the loyal States were invalid. How many persons were thus arrested and imprisonedwithout warrant during the course of the war cannot now besettled with any degree of accuracy, according to the statementof General F. C. Ainsworth, when chief of the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . r a prisoner of war, nor aperson not in the military or naval service. Among the otherpoints decided was that the suspension of the privilege of thewrit of habeas corpus did not suspend the writ itself. This casewas important, as according to it hundreds of trials by militarycommission in the loyal States were invalid. How many persons were thus arrested and imprisonedwithout warrant during the course of the war cannot now besettled with any degree of accuracy, according to the statementof General F. C. Ainsworth, when chief of the Record andPension Office. The records of the Federal commissary-gen-eral of prisoners from February, 1862, until the close of thewar show that 13, citizens were arrested and confined undervarious charges. General Ainsworth is certain, however, thatmany arrests, possibly several thousand, were made by militarycommanders or provost-marshals, and were not reported to thecommissary-general of prisoners. Contrary to the usual opinion, arrests without warrant.
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