I did say “may.”
The claims I’ve seen have been secondary reports from purported participants decades after the events in question.
Nothing resembling actual documentary evidence has been found.
That said, a great many Americans of southern sympathies were indisputably committing treason, by the Constitution’s definition, during the War.
If the CSA was indeed a separate nation, as they claimed, then they were giving aid and comfort to their country’s enemy, to the extent in many cases of burning bridges, killing soldiers, etc.
If you compare the claims by Taney that he was in fear of being arrested with Ward Lamon's tale then it's plain that the two don't match. Read Lamon's tale and it's full of holes. Taney told people he feared being arrested following the Merryman ruling, true. But there is apparently no basis for his paranoia. He was never arrested, never in danger of being arrested, and remained on the Supreme Court bench until his death in 1863.
If the CSA was indeed a separate nation, as they claimed, then they were giving aid and comfort to their country’s enemy, to the extent in many cases of burning bridges, killing soldiers, etc.”
What?
Lincoln and his leftist henchmen cared nothing about the Constitution or the Founders intent! Just like their brethren in the New England States in present day America...