It probably saddens a lot of the Free Republic Lincoln Coven that Lee and Davis were not hanged. They’d have pictures of them swinging nailed to their little dens of inequity.
It's important to remember that Lincoln chose Senator Johnson from Eastern Tennessee as an act of reconciliation with the South.
So I have no particular reason to believe that Lincoln himself would have acted differently from Johnson on these matters.
Indeed, the Union took these steps as acts of magnanimity and reconciliation, but today's Lost Causers like to throw them back in our faces as if there were "no crimes committed, no harm, no foul."
Hardly.