Miller, William

(1782-1849), born in Ma achusetts, served on the Canadian frontier in 1812. He proclaimed that the coming of Christ would occur in 1843, and founded the sect of ‘‘ Millerites,’’ or ‘‘ Adventists.”: Miller, William H. H., born in 1841, became a law-partner with General B. Harrison’in 1874. He was Attorney-General in Harrison’s Cabinet from 1889 to 1893. Milligan’s Case, a case decided by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1866, This case involved the right of a citizen to demand a writ of habeas corpus under particular circumstances. In October, 1864, during the Civil War, Milligan was brought before a military commi ion convened at Indianapolis by General Hovey. He was tried and sentenced to death for participation in rebellious schemes. By the Habeas Corpus Act of Congre , 1863, lists were to be furnished in each State of persons suspected of violating national laws. But any such persons, arrested and no indictment found against them by the Circuit Court, should be freed on petition verified by oath. Milligan was not indicted by the Circuit Court. He objected to the authority of the military commi ion and sued for a writ of Aabeas corpus in the Circuit Court. There was a division of opinion and the case came before the Supreme Court in 1866. That body decided that the writ should be i ued and the prisoner discharged. Regarding the military commi ion, it was maintained that such power of erecting military jurisdictions remote from the seat of ‘war was not vested in Congre , and that it could not be exercised in this particular case; that the prisoner, a civilian, was excmpt from the | laws of war and could only be tried by a jury; and finally, that the writ of habeas corpus could not be suspended constitutionally, though the privilege of that writ might be. Milliken’s Bend, Ia. In this engagement of the Civil War, a colored regiment which lay in intrenchments commanded by the Union General Dennis, was destroyed, June 6 and 7, 1863, by 2,500 Confederates led by Henry McCulloch.