The Yankees didn’t have balls to hang any Confederate.
If this had taken place in any other country other than America, The Southerners as the Vanquished, would have been subject to horrific Punishments.
Think about what happens if you were on the Losing Side of an African Bush War, The Japanese Shogun Wars in the late 1800's.
Horrible things.
But not here, Not in America. We needed to the United States Again.
In the War there were Heroes, Smugglers, Traitors and Rebels and everything in between.
A Good Act does not Wash out the Bad, Or the Bad Act the Good.
But Cleaner ways don't win wars.
Why bother?