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To: BigReb555

All those people who took up arms against the US in 1860-1865 were committing treason. In the main, they were deluded by the slave power which started the war. The survivors were, with one exception, given pardon by the generosity of the US government on the condition that they cease treason.


7 posted on 04/23/2013 9:42:11 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: donmeaker

“All those people who took up arms against the US in 1860-1865 were committing treason. “

All those people who took up arms against Great Britain in 1775-1783 were committing treason. A comparison that you never can explain away in your monomaniacal hatred of the South.

BTW, donny, do you get a lot of your material from ‘The Rad Geek’s People’s Daily”? I think that you do.


10 posted on 04/23/2013 10:15:08 PM PDT by Pelham (Without Deportation you have De Facto Amnesty.)
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To: donmeaker

“All those people who took up arms against the US in 1860-1865 were committing treason.”

You could say the same ting about the Revolutionary War, so do you hate this nation, too, because it was started by treason?


33 posted on 04/25/2013 7:32:32 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: donmeaker
Total number of persons arrested after the war for treason: 1 (Jefferson Davis)

Total tried for treason: 0.

Total number arrested for war crimes: 2

Henry Wirz was one of only two Confederates, tried convicted and executed for war crimes during the Civil War. The other was Samuel "Champ" Ferguson. Ferguson was a Confederate Guerrilla who admitted to killing more that 100 people, mostly civilians, who were sympathetic to the Union. He was tried for 53 murders and on October 10, 1865, was convicted and sentenced to death. He was hanged on October 20, 1865.

35 posted on 04/25/2013 7:43:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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