How many Confederate leaders were hanged after the war?

Answer 1

Both the two victorious Generals - Grant and Sherman - had adopted a generous policy, in line with Lincoln's famous injunction "Let 'em up easy." They told the Confederates that if they handed in their weapons and went home peacefully, they would not be persecuted.

There were calls for the hanging of Jefferson Davis, who might well be classified as a traitor, but his two years in jail satisfied the Northern appetite for revenge.

The only official hanging of a Confederate officer was Wirz, the Governor of Andersonville Prison, notorious for atrocities.

The only other people hanged in the Condederate cause were the group who had plotted Lincoln's assassination, though these could not be described as leaders. The event was considered sensational, as Mary Surratt, owner of the boarding-house where the weapons were handed out, was the first woman ever hanged in America.