I appreciate your attempt to slip the punch included in my post 523. I really do. But your misdirection is too plain to be effective.
Nevertheless, I accept this opportunity to add to General Eisenhower's admiration of Robert E. Lee.
I have been influenced by the writings of President Teddy Roosevelt. Said he: “As a mere military man Washington himself cannot rank with the wonderful war-chief who for four years led the Army of Northern Virginia.”
In another place Roosevelt wrote of Lee: “(he) will undoubtedly rank as without any exception the greatest of all the great Captains that the English-speaking people have brought forth - and this, although the last and chief of his antagonists may claim to stand as the full equal of Marlborough and Wellington.”
So yes, I think Lee was a great General. And no, he was not a trai**r.
So, here we are again. You state that Lee was not a traitor, but I still haven’t heard a convincing answer as to how leading the Army of Northern Virginia for 4 years and invading Maryland (Antietam) and Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) does not fall under Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution. It states (say it with me - I know you know it) “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”. The mere fact that the US government chose not to indict does not mean a crime did not occur.
Unless you can show that either Lee did not really lead the Army of Northern Virginia (his evil twin? his doppleganger from Earth 2?), or that the Army of Northern Virginia did not wage war on the United States (they were a Boy Scout Troop or an arm of the Salvation Army?), I don’t see how you can avoid the truth that Lee - and his entire Army, and all of the other Confederate Armies, were guilty of treason as defined in the US Constitution.
There is one way, though, that Lee would not have been guilty of treason. This is for the Confederacy to have won the war. Barring that, he stays under the authority of the US Constitution.