How would you have treated confederate leaders?

[DWPerry]

Had the senior government leadership shot, hand out prison terms to some of the officers, and require the rest to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union (or leave).

Congrats, you just started a guerrilla war!

Guerillas only work in an environment where friendly outside powers/neighobrs back them up. The british and French would be more than happy to back up the union in the purge of the white confederates.

Actually the French were making plans to help the CSA, but the French Army was coming up thru Mexico, and was defeated in an unrelated war.

[DWPerry]

1. Hang all political and military confederate leaders.
2. Break up plantations and give land to both poor whites and blacks.
3. Permanent federal troops.
4. Anyone under the age of 12 gets sent to northern boarding schools until they come of age.

Only the second one sounds like a good idea.  The rest I could do without. 

Number 3 is exactly the reason the Ku Klux Klan became violent after it was founded.

After enough time there wouldn't be enough members for the KKK since they'd all be dead and after awhile people would stop doing it since people would rather live. And the federal troops would have kept the south mostly equal, instead of the reverse it took. And number four would actually change the south for the good, they'd grow up in the north and not have the same ideas about the north that most in the south do now.

And people from "the north" think warm fuzzy wonderful thoughts about the people from "the south"?
I lived in Pennsylvania for almost 7 years, and still visit for a few days every month & very few people don't have prejudiced thoughts about me just because I'm from Alabama. I am very glad that I wasn't raised up north.

[DWPerry]

Actually Jedi, nothing against you, but your comments show exactly the pathetic state our education system is in. Federal troops WERE in the South for years after the war and instead of sending southern kids north the yankee govt sent Northern teachers into the south to brainwash the children into believing that what their fathers & mothers fought for was "wrong".

You forgot to mention the five military governors of the South.

* First Military District:  under General John Schofield
* Second Military District: under General Daniel Sickles
* Third Military District: under General John Pope
* Fourth Military District: under General Edward Ord
* Fifth Military District: under Generals Philip Sheridan and Winfield Scott Hancock

[DWPerry]

Why does StatesRights keep denying that the south seceded because of slavery?

Because there were other reasons besides Slavery. That was A reason, but not THE ONLY reason.
If slavery were the only issue, the Southern States would have (peacefully) re-joined the USA when Lincoln endorsed the "Corwin Amendment"
"No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State."

The Emancipation Proclamation did not free any slaves in Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia, nor any southern territory already under Union control.

[DWPerry]

CSA Constitution
Article 1 Section 9 (1) The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.