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Stephen Horsey

Released
Date of death:September 1898
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1800s
State:Indiana
Support
Anti-War
Stephen Horsey

Biography

Stephen Horsey was an Indiana antiwar Democrat tried before a military commission at Indianapolis with Lambdin P. Milligan and William A. Bowles and sentenced to death. He was freed in 1866 after the Supreme Court's decision in Ex parte Milligan.

Additional source for this Civil War detention: John A. Marshall, American Bastile (1869), printed pages 74, 87, 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: Death sentence; released following Ex parte Milligan.
Convicted: Yes