But there was no treason trial BECAUSE SESSION WAS NOT ILLEGAL OR UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Davis wanted, no begged is a better word, for a trial after Lincoln's pretend war to "preserve the Union". But the cowardly sniveling Yankees "victors" would not put their illegal war on trial. That really pisses you guys off doesn't it? Kind of ruins the party for you. Poor babies. You would just love to see Matthew Brady pictures of Lee swinging form a rope but alas you creeps have been denied your last "treat". The 'f' job on the South would have no climax.
Sic semper tyrannis.
Lee was covered under his parole agreement, and thus should, and could not have been tried. It was considered, and Grant quashed it, absent evidence that Lee had violated his parole.
Davis was pretty discredited at the end of the war, and wrote his works of fiction to rehabilitate himself. As you know, the legality of secession as pretended in 1861 was treated by Texas v. White.
I hate to see ya getting emotionally overwrought cva, especially since BroJoeK covered this in #85.