[DiogenesLamp]

From a factual perspective don't you think there is quite a difference between 80,000, which is approximately the total number of slave owners in all the Union states, and 300,000 which Baldwin claims is the total number of slave owners in Union ranks?

Yes, that's quite a discrepancy. I wonder where he got his number? Still, to make the history come out the way everyone claims, that number should still be zero.

[DoodleDawg]

I wonder where he got his number?

My suspicion is that he pulled it out of the same section of his anatomy that he got most of the rest of his story from.

Still, to make the history come out the way everyone claims, that number should still be zero.

The way everyone claims? Or the way you claim? Regardless, I'm aware of one Union officer who was also a slave owner, Colonel James Wallace of the 1st Maryland Infantry (Eastern Shore). There may well have been more but I would think that the number of slave owning Union soldiers would have been few in number. Certainly nowhere near the ridiculous number that Baldwin states.