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Andrew Humphreys

Released
Date of birth:30. 03. 1821
Date of death:14. 06. 1904
Age:83† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1800s
State:Indiana
Support
Anti-War
Andrew Humphreys

Biography

Andrew Humphreys was an Indiana antiwar Democrat tried before a military commission at Indianapolis in the Sons of Liberty case connected to Lambdin P. Milligan. Convicted, he was sentenced to hard labor for the duration of the war, and his case was among those resolved by the Supreme Court's 1866 ruling in Ex parte Milligan.

Additional source for this Civil War detention: John A. Marshall, American Bastile (1869), printed pages 74, https://archive.org/details/americanbastile00marsgoog/page/n87/mode/2up. This is a partisan retrospective account; its judgments should be read as attributed claims.

Case

Charges: Tried by a military commission at Indianapolis as an antiwar conspirator.
Arrested: 1864
Incarcerated: 1864
Released: 1866
Sentence: Hard labor; freed following Ex parte Milligan.
Convicted: Yes