in point of fact, had lincoln , the UNjust, started hanging ex-CSA personnel, he would have had a MASSIVE guerrilla war to fight, which the partisans might well have WON.
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Given the rate of desertions from southern armies at the end of the war, if Jefferson Davis and other confederate political leaders had taken to the hills to fight a continuing guerrilla war, the southerners themselves just might well had "taken care of the problem" before too long.