Consider that some where active abolutionists who felt a duty to fight for the political entity they supported (at that time a state).
Sorry to learn you don't know your history.
Consider that some where active abolutionists who felt a duty to fight for the political entity they supported (at that time a state).
Can't prove it. They were all draftees from day one. If they had not fought, they would have been hung. This doubtless played a major role in Johnson's decision to pardon Confederate en masse, but Johnson was a rabid racist, and to not pardon the Confederates would very likely have thrown the southern bloodbath that killed upwards of a million Americans of African heritage into a full scale guerilla war that the North knew it could not win. Therefore it didn't fight that one, but instead pointed out ot the southern states that if they didn't cease the slaugher, they would lose control of the Congress. That stopped the bulk of it, and equality was then denied Americans of African heritage for another hundred years.
Sorry to learn you don't know your history.
Consider that some where active abolutionists who felt a duty to fight for the political entity they supported (at that time a state).
Can't prove it. They were all draftees from day one. If they had not fought, they would have been hung. This doubtless played a major role in Johnson's decision to pardon Confederate en masse, but Johnson was a rabid racist, and to not pardon the Confederates would very likely have thrown the southern bloodbath that killed upwards of a million Americans of African heritage into a full scale guerilla war that the North knew it could not win. Therefore it didn't fight that one, but instead pointed out ot the southern states that if they didn't cease the slaugher, they would lose control of the Congress. That stopped the bulk of it, and equality was then denied Americans of African heritage for another hundred years.
Given that the south no longer lynches on a consistant basis, in fact, almost all southerners are actually reconstructed.
President Lincoln strongly opposed treason trials. After his death, a number of rebel leaders -were- indicted for treason.
It was soon realized that hanging them would have been bad for national reconciliation and the idea was dropped.
Walt