WikiLeaks case likened to Civil War espionage

FORT MEADE — Prosecutors are using a Civil War court-martial to advance their case that an Army private charged with sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks aided al-Qaida. Lawyers for Pfc. Bradley Manning dispute the government’s claim that Manning’s case parallels that of Pvt. Henry Vanderwater, a Union soldier [...]