John Garcia wrote:
>
> At 12:53 AM 12/10/2001 -0800, Doug wrote:
> >Tell me, its there any reason to treat this Johnny Walker guy ( the
> >American fighting with the Taliban) as anything other than a prisoner of
> >war - a captured foot soldier? I read a report that he could face
> >charges of treason, murder and conspiracy, but that sounds way out of line
> >to me. If an American kid had enlisted in the Nazi army, would he have
> >been charged with treason and murder? How many Confederate soldiers (just
> >about all of whom were U.S. Americans) were tried for such crimes?
>
> If memory serves, none of the Confederate soldiers were ever tried for
> treason. Once the war was over, most if not all, swore allegiance to the
> Union and received amnesty.
A few refused to surrender and laid low for awhile.
We can't find any record of my great-great grandfather from the end of
the war until around 1880, because he refused to surrender and was
avoiding the notice of the federals. I think we found him in the 1880
census, though. (Can't remember. Just remember going through a number
of census indices for 1870 and coming up totally empty-handed, and going
to the courthouse of the county he was in in Texas for a few years, and
finding no trace of his having done anything that would be recorded in
the courthouse.)
I also remember hearing a song that ended "I won't be Reconstructed and
I do not give a damn." (This was at a family reunion, can't remember if
this one was sung around the piano before or after the rendition of
"What a Friend We Have In Jesus" done in ragtime style on the
harpsichord, which has got to be one of the funniest things I've ever
heard.)
Julia
