Martial law was declared for part of the Civil War by Abraham Lincoln in the state of Maryland. Maryland had many southern sympathizers. It was meant to keep order.
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Maryland
Abraham Lincoln
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The Governor of a state or the Present of the U.S. has the power to declare martial law in case of a state emergency. Either case is debatable in the U.S. Constitution and the state's Constitution.
Maryland - to seize its railroad and protect the Northern capital (Washington D.C)
Hitler threatened to declare war on Czechoslovakia because the Czech government declared martial law.
Martial Law
he had to imposed a martial law on the border states. a martial law is a law administered by military forces that is invoked by a government during an emergency.
He jailed some Southern sympathisers in Maryland, which was a slave-state in danger of voting Confederate. There was no trial, so this may have been under martial law, or maybe no law.