« Reply #948 on: July 31, 2024, 01:49:37 pm »
No, I think we technically had martial law during the civil war I believe.
Nope. Just the suspension of Habeas Corpus by Lincoln, which was immediately challenged in court. The state and local governments in both Union and Confederacy continued to function through 1865, with the Presidential election of 1864 the biggest outcome, when Lincoln beat McClellan in a landslide. Davis still had 2 years left in his single six-year term, under the Confederate Constitution, when the war ended in 1865.

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