| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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A Soul on Trial: A Marine Corps Mystery at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. By Robin R. Cutler. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xviii, 382 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-4849-7.)

From Portland, Oregon, to the campus of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Robin R. Cutler describes one of the most remarkable cases of a civilian challenging the power of the U.S. military in American history. Cutler chronicles the quest of Rosa Sutton to clear her son Jimmie, a marine, whom the navy, after a hasty and sloppy initial investigation, declared had shot and killed himself during an altercation with other marines during the fall of 1907. Using an astounding variety and number of records and newspapers from around the country, Cutler methodically reconstructs Mrs. Sutton's successful efforts to convince the navy to open a proper and comprehensive investigation into her son's death after Jimmie astonishingly appears as a ghostly apparition and tells Mrs. Sutton, "Oh, Mother, don't believe them" (p. 9).

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