I can sustain the memory of Fort Fisher if he and his present associates can sustain him in shedding the blood of a woman tried by a military commission and convicted, in my judgment, without sufficient evidence!
Stevenson critiques the actions of military commissions and the consequences faced by an innocent woman.
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