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SourKangaroo95 t1_isdkgjg wrote on October 15, 2022 at 3:37 AM

Reply to comment by ChevExpressMan in TIL: During the US Civil War, a father issued a writ of habeus corpus to get his underaged Son out of the US Army, when the writ was delivered to the camp, the provost had both the lawyer who had delivered the writ, and the Judge who had issued the writ arrested and imprisoned. by hoosyourdaddyo

Cause otherwise washington dc would have been completely surrounded by confederate states. Virginia and Maryland

wingedcoyote t1_isesj9r wrote on October 15, 2022 at 12:49 PM

Maryland was never a confederate state.

maverick715 t1_ishh4bp wrote on October 16, 2022 at 12:46 AM

No, but they were very interested in joining.

Duckbilling t1_isexmsw wrote on October 15, 2022 at 1:35 PM

Manson-Nixon line