The interesting & arguable counterfactual that Prof. Guelzo hints at here is that the impeachment of Andrew Johnson was one of the factors that conspired to prevent a treason prosecution of Jefferson Davis.
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I don't quite get the part about only being able to charge him in Virginia. Couldn't they have charged him specifically for Gettysburg and gotten the trial in PA?
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So was Grant offering rations to Lee's army, after its surrender.
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He was a traitor and should have been hung before he left Appomattox Court House. No scholarly analysis is required, just a rope.
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That’s a lame assessment of the US in 1861. Most people felt allegiance to a State not the Feds.
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Hahahahaha
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Only person hanged Henry Wirz Commandant of Andersonville
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