Well, I seem to recall that both Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens, the head traitors, don't you know, both wrote long tomes justifying their wartime actions after the war. Stephens (wink and a nod), Stephens later took up the SAME seat in the US Congress that he held before the war!
So, Davis and Stephens at least, appear to have avoided being murdered.
No single person was hanged for treason after the ACW. On the -other- hand, loyal citizens were hanged by the dozens in East Tennessee and in Texas by CSA authorities--simply for professing loyalty to the old flag.
What the record shows is that losers had a great hand in writing the history of the war, and losers perpetuate it unto this very day.
Walt
I'm an amateur C.W. historian. Should I list some of the litany of war crimes committed by the northern invaders?
NO, but the North had their own evil Stevens - didn't they? It was because of him and the other northern radicals that reconstruction was such a dismal failure. Lincoln promised "malice toward none and charity towards all," and Stevens hated southerners with an evil passion.
"I seem to recall that both Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens, the head traitors, don't you know, both wrote long tomes justifying their wartime actions after the war."
First off, Davis and Stephens were far from "Traitors"...they were simply representing their constituents who had exercised their Constitutional Right to leave the Union. Why does that bother you so? And BTW...did the Public School you attended up North assign either Davis' or Stephens' book as required reading?! No, I didn't think so.
"No single person was hanged for treason after the ACW."
And Sherman's March to Atlanta in which hundreds of homes were burned, livestock was slaughtered, and innocents were RAPED and MURDERED never happened, right?! SHEEEESH...do you even realize how inanely-biased yer argument is, my Yankee FRiend?!
"On the -other- hand, loyal citizens were hanged by the dozens in East Tennessee and in Texas by CSA authorities--simply for professing loyalty to the old flag."
Perhaps I need to do some additional reading because I have never heard that this was a major problem and common occurence...can you suggest a reference to buttress this allegation?
"What the record shows is that losers had a great hand in writing the history of the war, and losers perpetuate it unto this very day."
Calling those who did not prevail in this most-avoidable war "losers" does not decrease the legitimacy of their argument one iota, IMHO.
MUD