>From Volume I of "Georgia Through Two Centuries" by Warren Grice (b. 1875-d. 1945; Associate GA Supreme Court Justice) pub. 1966. pages 427-429 "In the years immediately succeeding the War Between the States, there were many conflicts in the South between the civil and military authorities. Military dictators made and unmade courts, or prescribed and tore down law as tyranny willed. Judges trembled in their seats, and many for the slightest offense, lost their heads. In 1865, Benjamin Harvey Hill, for William A. and Jeremiah Beall against Garsed, Geo. Schley, and Thomas S. Metcalf, commenced in Richmond Superior Court a suit to restrain the latter from taking possession of and removing some 10,000 bales of cotton, worth at that time more than a king's ransom - two million dollars - which had accumulated during the war, and which the defendants claimed to have purchased from the Bealls. The defendants had applied to the U.S. military authorities for an order to compel the delivery of the cotton to them. Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor, the Provost Marshall-General, gave them the order. It was at this stage of the proceeding that Lawyer Hill presented his application for injunction to Judge Iverson L. Harris of the Ocmulgee Circuit. In the bill it was alleged that Gen. Grosvenor would give no hearing to Hill's clients, and that Major-General Steadman, then the military commander of Georgia, 'with an oath, repeatedly threatened that he would imprison any judge who dared to interfere with his military orders about the cotton.' ...Judge Harris, from a sense of right, sanctioned the bill and afterwards granted the injunction. Expecting to be arrested, Judge Harris packed his trunk with such articles as he thought might be needed for prison and sat down to await events. The threats were never executed. The case was a 'cause celebre'. ...The plaintiff won his case. It stayed won. He recovered his cotton and Senator Hill a fortune for his fee." (Just a small glimpse into the historical life and times in the South during the post Civil War period.) Jackie Hill Bower http://www.geocities.com/abackwardglance ______________________________________________________________ Get Your Free E-mail at http://www.prontomail.com