I see that you are still avoiding the questions posted 4 poists ago. You can continue to throw out insults, or you can answer the question. I wonder, are you desperately avoiding answering the question because you know the answer will not support your tenuous position that Lee was not a traitor as defined by Article III, Section 3 of the US Constitution?
In case you forgot the questions are as follows:
Was Robert E Lee in the Confederate Army?
• Did the Confederate Army wage war against the United States?
If the answer to both of these questions is yes, we will then go to a third.
• Does being a member of an Army actively fighting the US Army (and invading the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania) meet the definition of treason in Article III, Section of the US Constitution?
So, I am waiting for your answers to these questions. As I consider the answers to be obvious (yes to all) I would appreciate it if you could give me any reasons for any no answers.
Isn’t it true that the criteria for being charged with treason against the United States, the perpetrator would need to be a person owing allegiance to the United States? The Confederacy had formally declared itself a separate entity from the United States. The components of the Confederacy then owed allegiance to the Confederacy. Virginia had declared itself part of the Confederacy. How then can one argue that Lee committed treason?