Jurist

His knowledge of the law, his almost infallible judgment, his prodigious memory of the facts extending to the minutest details and rendering him for the most part independent of the record, his impregnable logic, his lucid statements of the law and his testimony and his forensic power all marked him as easily chief among the eminent counsel in that contest.

Jurists' Estimates The late Judge Jeremiah Wilson, one of the brightest lights of the Washington Bar, said to the writer, quote, What most impressed me in Colonel Ingersoll's course throughout the trial and compelled my profound admiration was not his legal learning, wide and accurate as I knew that to be, but his inimitable tact, his unerring judgment of the course to be pursued day by day, the witnesses to be examined, the weight to be given to their testimony, the points to be included and emphasized as vital and the parts to be excluded as irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial.

In short, his marvelous management of the entire case.

He absolutely made no mistakes as the outcome proved.