should jeff davis have been hanged?

[12th Doctor]

Yes... by the Confederates.  His poor management and unreasonable demands are the reason they lost the war... and his refusal to surrender only heightened the call for reprisals against the rebels.

The bastard threw away countless lives by appointing John Bell Hood to command the forces around Atlanta and then telling them to "go after them."  Johnson was smart.  He knew what he was doing.  Had Davis not been an idiot and allowed him to do it, the Union would have kept suffering horrific loses in front of Atlanta, and Lincoln might have lost the election.

[12th Doctor]

With hindsight, I voted no because Lincoln would have wanted it that way. If Davis was going to be hanged then Robert E. Lee should have followed him.

Ironically I was at Fort Monroe the other day - the place where Davis was imprisoned.

Personally, I could care less if the politicians had been hung... its the notion that Lee and the other generals would be hung that I can't stomach.  Especially since Lee probably did more to reunite the country than any other figure.