The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1789-1878Describes the essential elements of the incidents from the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 to the Reconstruction that followed the Civil War and the ways in which federal military force was applied in each case. Includes: the Fries Rebellion, the Burr Conspiracy, Slave Rebellions, the Nullification Crisis, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Riots, the 3Buckshot War2, the Patriot War, the Dorr Rebellion, the Army as Posse Comitatus, San Francisco Vigilantes, the Utah Expedition, the Civil War, etc. Extensive bibliography. Index. Full-color and b&w photos and maps. |
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... Sumner , and the Sack of Lawrence Sumner Polices the Territory .. 145 152 154 General Smith and the August War 159 • Geary's Pacification of Kansas 165 9 . THE LAST PHASE IN KANSAS AND ITS SEQUEL New Storm Clouds 173 173 Robert J ...
... Sumner , and the Sack of Lawrence Sumner Polices the Territory .. 145 152 154 General Smith and the August War 159 • Geary's Pacification of Kansas 165 9 . THE LAST PHASE IN KANSAS AND ITS SEQUEL New Storm Clouds 173 173 Robert J ...
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... Sumner Persifor F. Smith Topkea Robert J. Walker Lewis Cass .. James W. Denver ... " The Battle of Hickory Point " Harpers Ferry , c . 1859 John Brown Attack by U.S. Marines on John Brown's Band Robert E. Lee .... James Ewell Brown ...
... Sumner Persifor F. Smith Topkea Robert J. Walker Lewis Cass .. James W. Denver ... " The Battle of Hickory Point " Harpers Ferry , c . 1859 John Brown Attack by U.S. Marines on John Brown's Band Robert E. Lee .... James Ewell Brown ...
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... Sumner refused , " as the disturbance at the capi- tal . . . appears to proceed from political differences alone ... Sumner , 5 Dec 38 ; Sumner to Rittner , same date , H. Ex . Doc . 28 . 25th Congress , 3d sess . , Mes- sage of ...
... Sumner refused , " as the disturbance at the capi- tal . . . appears to proceed from political differences alone ... Sumner , 5 Dec 38 ; Sumner to Rittner , same date , H. Ex . Doc . 28 . 25th Congress , 3d sess . , Mes- sage of ...
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... Sumner on his action in refusing aid and laid down the general rule , " In doubtful cases , similar orders must be transmitted by direction of the President of the United States ; and in all cases where the seat of government is near ...
... Sumner on his action in refusing aid and laid down the general rule , " In doubtful cases , similar orders must be transmitted by direction of the President of the United States ; and in all cases where the seat of government is near ...
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... Sumner , a Yankee from Massachusetts ; troops of the 2d Dragoons and the 6th Infantry were at Riley under Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke , a Virginian , but one who would remain with the Union in the Civil War . Kansas was part of the ...
... Sumner , a Yankee from Massachusetts ; troops of the 2d Dragoons and the 6th Infantry were at Riley under Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke , a Virginian , but one who would remain with the Union in the Civil War . Kansas was part of the ...
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armed Army Hq arrest arrived artillery Asst August Burr Burr Conspiracy called Cass cavalry citizens civil authorities Colonel commander companies Congress Constitution Cooke County Cummings Department Dept detachment disorders dispatched district Dorr Rebellion draft dragoons enforce execution expedition federal troops freestaters Geary governor Hamilton Harney Harpers Ferry ibid Infantry instructions insurgents insurrection issued Jackson Jefferson John Johnston Kansas Lawrence Leavenworth Lecompton legislature Ltrs Marcy Meanwhile ment military force militia Mormon officers organized Pennsylvania Poinsett police posse comitatus president pro-slavery proclamation provost marshal Rebellion regiments regulars Republican request resistance riot sack of Lawrence Scott Secretary Secretary of War September sess Shannon Smith soldiers South Carolina Stanton Sumner suppress SW Rpt territory U.S. marshal United Utah Utah Expedition vigilantes violence volunteers Walker War Department Washington Whiskey Whiskey Rebellion Winfield Scott Wool York
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Page 14 - ... it shall be lawful for the president of the United States, or such other person as he shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States...
Page 6 - In pursuance of this authority, the act of 1795 has provided, "that whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth such number of the militia of the State or States most convenient to the place of danger, or scene of action, as he may judge necessary to repel such invasion, and to issue his order for that purpose to such officer or officers of the militia...
Page 6 - That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Page 8 - That whenever it may be necessary in the judgment of the President to use the military force hereby directed to be called forth, the President shall forthwith and previous thereto, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time...
Page 6 - February 28, 1795, provided, that, " in case of an insurrection in any State against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such State or of the executive, when the legislature cannot be convened, to call forth such number of the militia of any other State or States, as may be applied for, as he may judge sufficient to suppress such insurrection.
Page 7 - The marshals and their deputies shall have, in each State, the same powers, in executing the laws of the United States, as the sheriffs and their deputies in such State may have, by law, in executing the laws thereof.
Page 112 - President, therefore, by announcing his determination, was as effectual as if the militia had been assembled under his orders. And it should be equally authoritative. For certainly no court of the United States, with a knowledge of this decision, would have been justified in recognizing the opposing party as the lawful government...
Page 214 - Whenever, by reason of unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages of persons, or rebellion against the authority of the Government oC the United States, it shall become impracticable, in the judgment of the President, to enforce, by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United States...