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If he loses credibility with you on that point, then he should have totaled his credibility with this one.

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Despite what most of us have been taught, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not free the slaves. It wasn’t a law, but an edict. It specifically exempted the Border States and any parts of the South that were already under the control of Federal forces. It applied only to areas that were still in rebellion. So the Proclamation, of and by itself, did not free a single slave.
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In other words, the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to those areas that Lincoln could exercise his authority.

So what did Lincoln do to free the states in the states that were part of the union?

Well, first of all it wasn’t needed for most Northern states because those states were already free states.

For the remaining ‘border’ states, what he did was personally push through congress the Thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution. That amendment abolished slavery in the United States and thus FEED THE SLAVES !!!

So the author can SHOVE his bogus theory where the sun does not shine.

Which constitutional amendment did Abraham Lincoln personally push through Congress and what did it do?

“Emancipation Proclamation only applied to those areas that Lincoln could exercise his authority.”

You've got it completely backasswards, FRiend.

I suggest you read the emancipation proclamation. You'll find it applied ONLY to the areas NOT under federal control! The slaves in areas of the southern states where the federal armies controlled were NOT FREED!

And five months later, Lee surrendered; the war was effectively over when the amendment was enacted.

It was LIncoln’s war to fight and his to win; most of the offenses against the Constitution were restored by the end of Jackson’s term.

If the argument here is that there is no room for another book on this war because all that’s fit to know has already been printed then I will buy your presentation of events.

"Which constitutional amendment did Abraham Lincoln personally push through Congress and what did it do?"

I suppose you're referring to the "Corwin" amendment that would have extended slavery for all time.

From a quick search: "In 1861, a proposed amendment, was signed by President Lincoln. This was the only proposed amendment that was ever signed by a president. That resolve to amend read: "ARTICLE THIRTEEN, No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State." (In other words, President Lincoln had signed a resolve that would have permitted slavery, and upheld states' rights.) Only one State, Illinois, ratified this proposed amendment before the Civil War broke out in 1861.