In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army
arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial
in the border state of Maryland, though the federal criminal courts
in the state were functioning. Convicted of aiding and abetting
paroled Confederate soldiers, Benjamin Gwinn Harris of Maryland's
Fifth Congressional District was imprisoned and barred from holding
public office.Harris was a firebrand-effectively a Confederate
serving in Congress-and had long advocated the constitutionality of
slavery and the right of states to secede from the Union. This
first ever book-length analysis of the unusual trial examines the
prevailing opinions in Southern Maryland and in the War Department
regarding slavery, treason and the Constitution's guarantee of
property rights and freedom of speech.
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