...General Order Number 38 ... sympathy for those in arms against the Government of the United States and declaring disloyal sentiments and opinions with the...in its efforts to suppress an unlawful rebellion." . -- -r- :--'Former Ohio congressman Clement Laird Vallandigham, a Democrat, exiled to the Southern...

...night. The former congressman was brought before a five-member military commission and charged with "declaring disloyal sentiments and opinions with the...government in its efforts to suppress an unlawful rebellion."39 The commission found Vallandigham guilty and recommended his imprisonment in "close confinement"...

...rhetoric seemed a genuine threat to the cause of Union. A military court convicted him of uttering "disloyal sentiments and opinions, with the object...and purpose of weakening the power of the Government [to suppress] an unlawful rebellion." The tribunal sentenced him to a military prison for the rest...

...publicly expressing, in violation of General Order No. 38, from Headquarters Department of the Ohio, his sympathy for those in arms against the Government...to be placed in close confinement in some fortress V the United States, to be designated by the commanding officer of the department, there to be kept...

...the Department of Ohio, sympathy for those in arms against the Government of the United States, and declaring disloyal sentiments and opinions, with the...in its efforts to suppress an unlawful rebellion." He was sentenced to confinement in Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor, during the continuance of the war....

...constant irritant to the Lincoln administration. Vallandigham was tried by military commission for "declaring disloyal sentiments and opinions with the...purpose of weakening the power of the government" and exiled to the Confederacy.1' He spent the next year in exile in Canada. Alexander J. Douglass,...