PS NO ONE was ever charged with treason after the War of Northern Aggression.
A credit to Lincoln and his peacemaker policy to “let ’em up easy.”
No one was charge because of simple expediency in that Lincoln felt it would only make matters worse for a nation sick of the bloodiest war in our nations history. A war by the way the SOUTH provoked and started!
Lee and Davis should have considered themselves lucky indeed they weren’t hung.
Not true. Davis was certainly charged but never tried, saved by the 14th Amendment and Andrew Johnson's various clemency proclamations.
Except for John C. Breckenridge
He was expelled from the Senate for treason.
... https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/expulsion_cases/038Breckinridge_expulsion.htm
Breckinridge Expulsion
The Expulsion Case of John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky (1861)
John C. Breckinridge
Issues
Disloyalty to Union
Chronology
Resolution introduced: Dec. 4, 1861
Senate vote: Dec. 4, 1861
Result: Expelled