Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief,
Civil Liberties in War Time, and Lincoln on
Reconstruction
Professor J. Giesberg
January 24, 2009
Abraham Lincoln’s War
Ex Parte Merryman (1861):
Lincoln v. Taney on habeas corpus
Lincoln as Commander in Chief
Lincoln’s Generals:
George McClellan
Lincoln v. McClellan
1861-1862
Lincoln and USCT
(1863-1865)
Frederick Douglass on Black
Soldiers
Lincoln’s Generals, 1864-1865:
U.S. Grant and W.T. Sherman
Lincoln on civil liberties
Lincoln’s precedent…?
Frederick Douglass Remembers