"They Cannot Expect... That a Loyal People Will Tolerate the Utterance of Such Sentiments": The Campaign against Treasonous Speech during the Civil War.

The article discusses the concept of loyalty during the U.S. Civil War, particularly sentiment against treasonous speech by southerners. It examines the policies of the U.S. government concerning disloyalty, the role of the U.S. War Department and office of judge advocate general in the person of major Levi C. Turner handling subversive speech