(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) A Bill to Suspend the Privilege of Writ of Habeas Corpus....

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) A Bill to Suspend the Privilege of Writ of Habeas Corpus. 6 pages plus final blank. 8vo, unbound; toned, splitting along backstrip; inked War Department stamp on first page. [Richmond, VA], 9 December 1864

The last of a controversial series of laws granting President Davis the power to suspend habeas corpus, here limited "only to the cases of persons arrested or detained by order of the President, Secretary of War, or the General Officer commanding the trans-Mississippi military department"--and then only for cases of specific crimes such as treason. Parrish & Willingham 731; no others traced at auction. with--a Union War Department printing of the 24 September 1862 proclamation suspending habeas corpus, signed in type by President Lincoln, and here issued by the War Department as General Order 141 the following day.