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What former President used the military to save the republic and what occurred exactly?

Does anyone know which former President this was, and what happened? Was it Lincoln? Another President?

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What former President used the military to save the republic and what occurred exactly?

Abraham Lincoln - CIVIL WAR resulted He declared Martial Law which suspended habeas corpus in the US. More specifically he imposed the suspension on “prisoners of war, spies, or aiders and abettors of the enemy,” as well as on other classes of people, such as draft dodgers.” Source=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_the_United_States#Ex_parte_Milligan