War Crimes Tribunal (1865) (Dixie Forever)

As part of the peace treaty between the United States and Confederate States, both nations agreed to have an international tribunal to try what was termed 'war crimes' by the 27th article of the Treaty of Toronto (1865) between the two. The tribunal would be headed by two representatives each from the British Empire, the French Empire, the German Confederation, the Russian Empire, and the Spanish Empire.

The commission began September 22, 1865, and concluded in 1867 in March.

Members of the Union Army and Confederate Army were both held liable, along with government and cabinet officials, excluding the respective presidents and vice-presidents.

Union Army

 * General John McNeil: execution of ten civilians in Palmyra, Missouri; verdict: guilty; sentence: reduction in rank to Captain, forfeiture of pension benefits. Payment to the families and loved ones of the persons ordered killed of $500 each.
 * General William Sherman:
 * Roswell, Georgia: keeping over 400 young women and children in the town square for a week in the elements, while also allowing whiskey stores to the soldiers, and thence not restraining the soldiers.
 * New Manchester, Georgia: shipping north the women and children of the town and wiping it off the face of the earth
 * Verdict: Guilty
 * General Benjamin Butler:
 * Ordering the jailing and hanging of William Mumford for removing a US Flag; verdict: innocent
 * Ordering women who disrespected Union soldiers to be treated as prostitutes by the same; verdict: guilty
 * Allowing his troops to steal the silverware from the homes of New Orleans; verdict: guilty; sentence: Butler must himself replace all silverware to all homes registered in 1860 in New Orleans
 * Allowing troops to desecrate the graves of the dead in New Iberia, steal from caskets, and deface the tombstones thereof; verdict: guilty