http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1865/ U.S. Supreme Court Cases, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>Lambden P. Milligan was sentenced to death by a military commission in Indiana during the Civil War; he had engaged in acts of disloyalty. Milligan sought release through habeas corpus from a federal court.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1865/1865_0/