Court marshall of robert E.lee anyone help me?

Question

i'm the defense with two other people. i need some help. prosecution is charging us with 1.Treason 2.crimes against humanity and 3.citing innsurrection. i need defenses witneses i could use anything you think can help please

Answer 1

Treason against whom? Show me where in the Constitution where it said or says now we could not secede from the Union? Did Lee or any other Southern General strike a blow against the United States or any Union armed force before resigning from the US Army? No. He and the South followed what the founding fathers intended freedom.


Crimes against humanity. Sir you are lucky that dueling is against the law. When did the Confederate Army ever commit any crime against humanity or the Codes of War? When we went through Pennsylvania we were ordered to pay for anything, we took which was done. We unlike you yankees never bombarded civilians; we unlike you Yankees never hung women or teenagers. We unlike you yankees never kidnapped children or family members to destroy the morale of the Army. We never committed atrocities on prisioners like you Yankees did our boys at Point Lookout, Elmira and Camp Douglas. (You charged civilians to come and look at us, you took our blankets and starved and froze us). Your boys at Andersonville got the same rations as our soldiers and when we offered to trade prisioners, you refused. We offered to sell/ trade you cotton for medicine, food and clothes that you were to administrate just for your own men who were in our prisons- again you refused. You wanted the civilian population to hate us so they would continue your war and your Army to fear capture as a lesson to fight harder.

Lastly, citing insurrection against whom? The Confederate Government? We asked to leave the Union and when we did you lied and planned the war. While we sat in meetings negotiating what payment you wanted for US Property (In our areas) and the evacuation of US Forts. After your promise not to resupply these forts you snook about and did so anyway. Forcing us into armed conflict, throughout the war we begged you to allow us to go peacefully on our way but you refused.


Regardless God Bless You, Yours and the Southern People

Answer 2

Well, I'm not a Lee fan; but to get a good idea of what the prosecution will come up with, I suggest you read "Lee, Considered" by Alan Nolan. It's seen as a hatchet job on Lee by many Confederate apologists and should give you an idea of what you are up against.

(Your library should be able to get you a copy).

Not to depress you but when I was on active duty we had a debate about this and the vote was 13-0 in favor of court-martialling him.

Answer 3

we actually do not know the situations, so it quite is confusing to presume what'll ensue. If he's being charged with adultery, then greater suitable than probable, they're going to opt for your testimony or some style of genuine fact as information. the main they are able to do is throw him interior the brig, decrease his rank to an ensign (if officer) or seaman (if enlisted), do away along with his pay, and throw him out of the militia. It does look unusual that considered one of those ingredient could bypass all the thank you to court docket marshal and not in basic terms NJP him under the UCMJ.

Answer 4

Strange, but Robert E. Lee was considered sort of a hero, even by the North.
And he was a great hero everywhere else.
I assume that you are referring to "The War of Northern Aggression."

Answer 5

" I beg for the mercy of the court!"