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To: KonKilo who wrote (347962)	1/26/2003 8:52:55 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I take it from your handle that you also are a Civil War buff. No?

To: KonKilo who wrote (347962)	1/26/2003 12:48:16 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I have a quote from one of the post-war Supreme Court justices advising the Feds not to prosecute Confederate officers and officials as war criminals, since they were within their Constitutional rights to secede and any trial against them would reflect poorly on the Union. I have always understood that Lincoln did not want to prosecute the Confederates. He wanted to end the secession and get back to running the US again. Except for one Confederate: The commandant of Andersonville Prison in Georgia, a POW camp, was tried for war crimes and executed. My great grandpappy spent 2 years in that hellhole. It destroyed his health and he died soon after the war. law.umkc.edu That link mentions that Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were originally in the indictment. And makes a good defense of Wirz and the South.