[BroJoeK]

central_va: "You didn’t answer the question. Quit acting like a railroad lawyer and give a direct answer."

What are you talking about?
Of course I answered it, quite clearly.
I agree with Lincoln's choice of Johnson as VP, and Johnson's choice of pardons for all Confederate leaders.

What I disagree with is Lost-Causers using the Lincoln-Johnson pardons as arguments for "innocence" or "no crimes committed".
In any other country those leaders would have been shot or hanged, but that is not the American way.
But they were pardoned for their crimes, not their innocence.

[central_va]

The question is to you: would you feel it would have been justice if Lee and Davis were hanged?

[central_va]

crickets.