DOW v. JOHNSON


100 U.S. 158 (____)

Dow v. JOHNSON.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by The Attorney-General and Mr. E.B. Smith, Assistant Attorney-General, for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. Thomas J. Durant for the defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant in the court below, the plaintiff in error here, Neal Dow, was a brigadier-general in the army of the United States during the late civil war, and in 1862 and 1863 was stationed in Louisiana in command of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi River, below New Orleans. These forts surrendered to the forces of the United States in April, 1862. The...

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