Lincoln & Congress faced awesome responsibilities from the Civil War. Yet they still managed the everyday running of the country, including the formation of the Federal Court of Claims.
With the Civil War battles raging within a few miles of Washington, D.C., with the reminder of the horrors of the war by wounded soldiers arriving daily to be treated in the area hospitals, Congress and President Lincoln faced awesome responsibilities of managing the war. Yet, in spite of a war and its horrors, there was business to be attended to, that the everyday running the country itself. Lincoln scholar and historian, Rutgers University Prof. Jonathan Lurie (ret.), offers one of his classic presentations about one such incident that occurred between 1861 and 1863; it involved both Congress and Pres. Lincoln, and the court that resulted from it that is STILL part of our federal judicial system, the Federal Court of Claims.
About the Presenter: Jonathan Lurie is a professor-emeritus of History at Rutgers University. He is the author Arming Military Justice: The Origins of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals; The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the 14th Amendment. Prof. Laurie was awarded the Fulbright fellowship to Uppsala University School of Law in Sweden and was invited to lecture at the United States Supreme Court Historical Society. He has appeared at numerous historical societies and keynote speaker at public events.
About the North Jersey Civil War Round Table: One of the largest round tables in the United States, the North Jersey Civil War Round Table is known for the caliber of our speakers and membership participation. The NJCWRT stresses the military/socio/economic aspects of the Civil War and its lasting legacy. Members include noted historians, teachers, and scholars, members of the judiciary, professionals and others who are interested in the Civil War. Speakers have included two Pulitzer Prize winners, James M. McPherson and Eric Foner; Civil War icon, Ed Bearss; New Jersey historian John T. Cunningham; Rutgers Professor Louis Masur; S.C. Gwynne; Craig L .Symonds; James Bud Robertson; Thomas Fleming; and pre-eminent Lincoln scholar, Michael Burlingame.
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