How would you have treated confederate leaders?

[Mechaman]

It's so fun to see that the talk of the post Civil War era gets so many people so excited and thrilled about abandoning human decency and engage in fantasies of barbarity that involves the killings of dozens, if not hundreds, of people all in the name of American Nationalism.

So fun.

As for how I would've treated the leaders?  A surrender would've been enough to satisfy my ego so I guess I would've just let things be.  I know that sounds crazy to some folks, but forgiveness has always made me feel better than policies of retribution.

[Mechaman]

It's so fun to see that the talk of the post Civil War era gets so many people so excited and thrilled about abandoning human decency and engage in fantasies of barbarity that involves the killings of dozens, if not hundreds, of people all in the name of American Nationalism.

[Mechaman]

Execution, without a doubt. The South got away with treason way too easily, and has had a chip on their shoulder ever since. Armed insurrection is not a silly little game, where you shake hands afterward. 

Yeah killing their leaders would've prevented that. . . .

[Mechaman]

Execution, without a doubt. The South got away with treason way too easily, and has had a chip on their shoulder ever since. Armed insurrection is not a silly little game, where you shake hands afterward. 

Yeah killing their leaders would've prevented that. . . .

Allowing them to live allowed them to organize and take back power in the South, thus undoing the entire Civil War for a ing century.

Well then for finks sake imprison them for treason.  Don't resort to chopping their heads off or gallowing them.  That's something I would expect from barbaric slaveholders. . . . .