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- GLC#
- GLC06014
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- April 1864
- Author/Creator
- Gilmer, John H. (John Harmer), 1812-?
- Title
- Substance of the argument delivered by John H. Gilmer, before Judge J.B. Halyburton
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address Height: 49.5 cm, Width: 37.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Gilmer was a lawyer from Virginia. Printed speech on Congress suspending Writ of Habeas Corpus, Sequestion Act, Conscription Act, and Substitute Act. Speech is generally about civil liberties in a time of war. Remarks made in Virginia District Court. Addressed on verso to the Governor of Virginia, John Letcher, with a cancelled 2 cent Andrew Jackson stamp.
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