Quotes About Court-martialed

Colonel Edwin F. Glenn led a team of water cure experts in the Philippines and was court-martialed for violating the 1863 code's prohibition on torture. Twelve years later, he drafted the field manual on the laws of war that American officers would carry into two world wars.

Andrew Jackson, on the other hand, later said that if he had been stationed in New England, he would have court-martialed the "monarchists & Traitors" who were behind the Hartford Convention.172 Given his record in the Southwest and later in Spanish Florida, this was probably no idle boast.