“When did I repudiate Grant on this site?”
It is probably more accurate to say Grant repudiated you; or at least your Won Cause Myths.
According to the Won Cause Myths Lee should have been tried for treason and hanged. You have said this.
General Grant vigorously opposed this treachery and said so in no uncertain terms. In a letter to Secretary of War Stanton General Grant wrote:
“In my opinion the officers and men paroled at Appomattox C.H. and since upon the same terms given to Lee, can not be tried for treason so long as they observe the terms of their parole…. I will state further that the terms granted by me met with the hearty approval of the President at the time, and of the country generally. The action of Judge Underwood in Norfolk has already had an injurious effect, and I would ask that he be ordered to quash all indictments found against paroled prisoners of war, and to desist from further prosecution of them.”
General Grant’s views prevailed but not until the bloody shirt was swung around by demagogues for several years. And a little bit after.
Political expediency and the fact that the nation was in no mood for such a trial and what would be perceived as a sort of revenge prompted Lincoln to tell grant on his way to Appomattox to ‘’let them up easy''. Try as you Rebs might I found you to be a bunch of moral relativists and revisionists who try like heck to obfuscate the reason for the war- the Souths determination to preserve slavery. Refresh my memory: Was it the North who was trying to do this or was it the South?