Why did the South get off relatively scott-free after the end of the Civil War? In the end, only one Confederate officer was hanged for war crimes, and he was the commandant of a PoW camp, not even a commanding general.
What was keeping the Union for barring southern states from voting in the electoral college permanently? Strip them of their statehood and place the land in sole control of the military? or just execute/imprison every man who served in the Confederate armed forces, including public executions for men like Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee?
It makes little sense to welcome the vanquished and let them stand on equal footing with the victors like nothing happened.
The whole aim of victory was to repair the union. America is only as strong as the unity of the states, and imagine how much weaker America would be if the southern states were occupied territories rather than re-integrated states that actively contributed to the USA's national interest.
Alexander Gonzalez
The authoritarian, proto-socialist northerners already redistributed the wealth and property of landed southern gentry, what more do you want?
Noah Reed
Because killing southern leaders and taking all of the souths shit will only lead to a more fragmented union and future bloodshed It would defeat the unions purpose in the civil war and make them look like dick ass dictators
Kevin Johnson
>execute around half a million men That sounds like a great way to make sure the Southern states will always hate the North and make every European country view you as barbarous. Lee told his men to stand down when he surrendered, to make sure that no insurgencies happened. Lee did not support secession when it happened and only switched sides once Virginia joined the Confederacy. All of these "Duuuuuude just execute all the southerner" posts are probably bait but I have a feeling that there really are some dumb people who believe this would work, probably because they are butthurt Yankees who hate the South. They are just Southerners who think the South should rise again when their greatest hero did not think it should have ever rose in the first place.
Lincoln also thought this was a bad idea and wanted to be very lenient on the South, more than the Government was historically. Lincoln getting assassinated was the worst thing the happened to the South at the wars end.
Jackson Thompson
Because it worked. The former Confederacy was re-integrated into the Union and you didn't have the decades of purges, reprisals, blood feuds, recurrence of open violence, etc. that characterized other civil wars.
Joshua Davis
they didn't. their culture was completely wiped out and assimilated
Logan Scott
Fuck off
Justin Diaz
btfo
Wyatt Adams
t. southern
>Lincoln getting assassinated was the worst thing Didn't the President who replaced him was super lenient to the South?
Ethan James
>why did the south get off easily Have you heard of reconstruction? It wasn't exactly done well and without spite
Carter Foster
>What was keeping the Union for barring southern states from voting in the electoral college permanently? Strip them of their statehood and place the land in sole control of the military?
>fight war to "free slaves" >win war >disallow freedom in places in all those places those slaves you freed live
GOLLY GEE
Charles Morales
No you fuck off cletus the south sucks ass
Samuel Phillips
>didn't have the decades of purges, reprisals, blood feuds, recurrence of open violence, etc.
They were both going to be lenient, it is just that Johnson, if I remember correctly, was constantly fighting with Radical Republicans and reconstruction became a clusterfuck. I feel that Lincoln would have been able to manage it much easier. Probably would have gone for a third term as well.
Michael Peterson
Well, at the least, I feel he was the kind of man that would have gone for a third term IF if felt that he the situation needed him.
Henry Parker
Shit thread, cool map. Why were Tennessee and Virginia given their own military districts? I could understand if it was Texas, but no, they're with Louisiana.
Ethan Garcia
>unleash a race of thieves, murderers, and rapists unto the South for a 150 years >force them to pay for their welfare and affirmative action >force people to accept them into their schools, stores and public places so they cannot escape them, not even their children >relatively scott-free Fuck off Yankee liberal
Jayden Hill
Lincoln was lenient, but would have used the army to enforce social change and solve long-term problems with the South.
Johnson was just "lol do whatever the fuck you want, up to and including de-facto slavery".
Jack Green
life isn't fair reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Jordan Nelson
what did they mean by this?
Sebastian White
If they began any sort of unnecessary barbarism they South would never surrender. The Union would face a years-long guerilla war and lose how many more men. Also if they didn't declare victory, a Democrat would take office and end the war any way Also, they had already burned half the South down.
