I guess when you rule by the sword rather than by law you can do pretty much what you want to. You would have loved the U.S.S.R.
Personal attacks must suffice when the facts don't suit you.
What saved Davis and the rest from the noose was the fact that Abraham Lincoln STRONGLY opposed any such trials. Lincoln attended a meeting with Stanton on this very subject on the last day of his life.
Have you not seen the "April 1865" two hour show on the History Channel, or read Jay Winek's book?
Grant and Sherman meet with Lincoln at City Point early in April. He impresses on them the need for liberality and forgiveness.
When President Johnson was -determined- to try and hang Lee(and Milligan), he was balked in that attempt by Grant, who threatened to resign.
Sherman, that famous despoiler of states, proposed terms so liberal and generous to the rebels they could scarely believe it.
It was President Lincoln's words of forgiveness and reconciliation that stayed Stanton's hand, and Johnson's hand.
It was the actions of Grant and Sherman and Lee and Johnston that saved this country from the blood bath that has so often attended the end of other revolutions in other countries.
Maybe if the top 50 or 100 rebels HAD been hanged, you wouldn't have been so hooked on fantasy instead of truth.
Walt