The trials for treason at Indianapolis
Subtitle: disclosing the plans for establishing a North-Western Confederacy
By: edited by Benn Pitman
Publisher: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Cincinnati
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Other titles: Indiana treason trials
Notes: Two columns to the page.

Frontispiece portraits engraved by A.H. Ritchie.

"Being the official record of the trials before the military commission convened by special orders no. 129, Headquarters District of Indiana ; Brevet Major General A.P. Hovey, commander of the district. Brevet Brigadier General Silas Colgrove, president; H.L. Burnett, of the Department of the Ohio and Northern Department, judge advocate of the commission. Containing the testimony, arguments, finding and sentence, in the case of Harrison H. Dodd ; also of William A. Bowles, Andrew Humphreys, Horace Heffren, Lambdin P. Milligan, and Stephen Horsey. Developing the origin, history, extent, names of officers, etc., of the secret orders of Knights of the Golden Circle, the Circle of Honor, the Order of American Knights, and Order of the Sons of Liberty--their organization, rituals, passwords, grips, oaths, obligations and penalties ; their ostensible and real purposes. With accurate illustrations of the Greek fire shells, hand grenades, rockets and infernal machines of the conspirators, introduced in evidence on the trials. To which is added the full report of Judge Advocate General Holt on the Order of American Knights, alias the Sons of Liberty ; a western conspiracy in aid of Southern rebellion."

Lincoln copy: [10] p. of the publisher's advertisements at end.

Lincoln copy bound in cloth.