Abraham Lincoln

The case of a Maryland farmer named John Merryman who was arrested on this day in 1861 on charges of treason against the United States. An examination of the suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus in times of war or national emergency; with Dr. Jonathan White, author of “Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman” and George W. Liebmann, author of “Six Lost Leaders: Prophets of Civil Society.”