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To: central_va; rockrr; x
central_va: "It probably saddens a lot of the Free Republic Lincoln Coven that Lee and Davis were not hanged."

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.

66 posted on 12/17/2015 5:44:54 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK

They got ole Henry Wirz though....


67 posted on 12/17/2015 5:47:55 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: BroJoeK

Fortunately the lost causers, always an oddity, continue to dwindle in numbers and energy (but not spite).


68 posted on 12/17/2015 5:48:49 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: BroJoeK

Well do you wish Lee and Davis had got the rope? Come on give an honest answer....


69 posted on 12/17/2015 5:48:49 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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