By Anna Von reitz
Pernicious Confusion About Milligan Ex
Parte
The Supreme Court decided Milligan Ex Parte in
1866, a year after the creation of quasi-military courts in ten military
districts covering eleven Southern States in May of 1865.
These courts were formed by the Rump Congress
immediately following Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia, in April of 1865.
Basically, a General "of at least the rank of a
Brigadier" was put in charge of appointing civilians loyal to the North to act
as Judges in Southern Courts: carpetbaggers.
These people were all either transported to serve
as judges in these new quasi-military courts or they were hated members of their
own communities --- Yankee Sympathizers --- who were given plenary power over
their defeated neighbors, to rape, pillage, and plunder whatever property was
left in the South.
