Now do it where their asses are actually held to account during Reconstruction and Jim Crow laws don’t happen
Lee and his whole officer corps gets hanged along with all the politicians. The formerly enslaved folk get the slavers lands and assets. And they retain the political power they had during reconstruction.
Clockwork Century novels - Alternate history where a drug developed from toxic gas turns CSA soldiers into zombies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boneshaker_(novel)
Boneshaker, October 2009, Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-7653-1841-1.
Clementine, July 2010, Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1-59606-308-2.
Dreadnought, September 2010, Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-7653-2578-5.
Ganymede, September 2011, Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-7653-2946-2.
The Inexplicables, November 2012, Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-7653-2947-9.
Fiddlehead, November 2013, Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-7653-3407-7 [15]
Jacaranda, January 2015, Subterranean Press
“Launch the nukes!!!” -Abraham Lincoln
The Union really dropped the ball on reconstruction and letting the racist aristocracy come right back to take over. Should have hanged every one of them.