> Just to illustrate how silly your criterion is: leaders of the Confederacy weren’t even convicted of sedition or treason. Not pursuing the charges after they

> Just to illustrate how silly your criterion is: leaders of the Confederacy weren’t even convicted of sedition or treason. Not pursuing the charges after they were filed in many cases was a political decision made for purposes of reconciliation, not an indication of innocence. This is not an uncommon outcome of Civil Wars (neither is the opposite extreme, though.)