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Everyone knows that the confederates were traitors. It is common knowledge.
I have to disagree. They seceded from the USA. The power to stop states from seceding was not given to Federal Government, therefore it should have been a power reserved for the States. Also the people at the time decided to heal the nation instead of resorting to that type of revenge.
He wasn't tried for treason. But we all know that he could have been.
Once they seceded and renounced their citizenship, they were no longer part of the USA.