[vetvetdoug]

At Appomattox Longstreet suggested to General Lee that they could avoid surrender and encirclement by dispersing their army to fight a guerrilla war that the North would be hard pressed to win. Lee made the decision to surrender the army and begin the healing of the US as enough death and destruction had been dealt. The ramifications of his decision were enormous. Even the US had been born out of a semi guerrilla war during the Revolution. Even today, Lee is considered one of the most revered US military men in history.

I am just curious, how many Southern men were convicted of treason? Why not? The answer would shut up those that called Southerners treasonous. Samuel Chase knew he could not win a case of treason against Alfred Bledsoe in a court of law.

[kiryandil]

I am just curious, how many Southern men were convicted of treason? Why not? The answer would shut up those that called Southerners treasonous. Samuel Chase knew he could not win a case of treason against Alfred Bledsoe in a court of law.

Those who do not remember history, are condemned to make appallingly stupid comments about it on FR threads, as we can easily see by looking about us. LOL! :)

I'll be raising a glass to the memory of Marse Robert on Monday.

[X Fretensis]

That was not Longstreet. That suggestion was made by General E.Porter Alexander. General Lee presented a very cogent response to Alexander’s suggestion. In his memoirs, Alexander stated, after hearting General Lee’s reasoning not to shift to guerilla warfare, he reconsidered his ideas as about the dumbest idea that he had ever put forth.