“Don’t forget Lincoln ordered the imprisonment of the entire Maryland Legislature to prevent a vote on Secession of Maryland from the Union.”
Not quite the case. In a special session of the Maryland Legislature held April 1861 the vote was 53 to remain in the Union and 13 to secede from the Union. The next regular session of the Maryland Legislature met September 1861. It was at this time about 1/3 of the legislators were arrested by Federal authorities.
They were not Lee’s slaves. They were the property of G.W.P. Custus, Lee’s father in-law. Lee was one of the executors listed the Custus will. The will authorized the executors to free the slaves once the debts and legacies’ were paid in full. But under no circumstance were they to be kept in bondage longer than five years after Custus’s death. Lee kept some of the Custus slaves for the entire five years, freeing the last of them in Dec 1862.
“which would have explicitly protected slavery in the US Constitution effectively forever.”
Not really. All the Corwin Amendment did was to prevent the U.S. Government from taking any action against slavery in any state where it was already legal. States were free to end the institution if the so chose to do so, and Congress had the authority to prevent the introduction of slavery into any territory they so chose.
think you are right. I have had occasions to see the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards and the Highland regiment march. They were perfect. Better than us. except maybe some Marine units.
Don’t know about cannibalism, but during the war, Us and the Aussies use to pay a bounty of a pack of cigarettes for each Japanese head these people would bring to our lines. They were very adept at head hunting. The also helped protect the coast watchers from the nips.
NTSB has interviewed both pilots, the captain, the mates, the deck crewmen, Chief Engineer, the other engineer officers and the engineer crewmen. Preliminary report due sometime in May.