Make the Confederacy's Defeat a National Holiday

[Yupster]

42. Davis lived a long time after the war

He was indicted for treason and spent the rest of his life demanding his trial.

He had a team of high powered northern lawyers and his position was that the southern states left the union legally, were an illegally conquered nation, and would the northern occupying army kindly go back home so he could set to work repairing his torn to shreds unhappy land.

Though the President of the USA was a long time personal enemy of his, he was never given that trial. Eventually he was bailed out of jail by northern millionaires but he was never given his trial.

As far as I know Lee never apologized, but he urged his men to just go home and live useful lives. He was also indicted for treason.

He certainly did. He took the presidency of Washington University and changed it dramatically getting rid of things like Greek and Latin and adding more practical subjects like engineering.

There's a great scene from a letter a student wrote to his family. He wrote that after class, some students took to the field to play a new game called baseball. One day the old general came by on his warhorse Traveller, stopped and sat down to watch the baseball game for a little while.

I thought that is one of those pictures I'd like to see from history that shows the changing of the eras.