What I posted is 100% true, what you're posting is a crock of nonsense.
Captain Jack Aubrey: "The army had no authority to free slaves in the US. "
The US army had every legal authority to declare Confederate state slaves as "contraband of war" and freed them, beginning in the Civil War's first weeks.
At the same time, the Confederate army did the reverse: whenever Confederates invaded Union states they seized any African Americans they found -- whether fugitives or freed -- and sent them south for sale in Confederate slave markets.
Captain Jack Aubrey: "There were slaves in Washington, Maryland..."
In 1848 Congressman Lincoln first proposed compensated abolition in Washington, DC, and in 1862 President Lincoln's proposal for compensated abolition in Washington passed.
Lincoln also proposed compensated abolition in the four Border States, but they rejected it at the time.
Maryland freed their slaves in 1864, Missouri in early 1865.
West Virginia's abolition law (Wiley Amendment) passed in March 1863, though apparently not fully enforced before 1865.
Captain Jack Aubrey: "In fact the first proposed 13th Amendment that passed the congress and was sent out to the states for ratification forever guaranteed the right to own slaves in the US."
Yeh, I don't know what that is which gets into the brains of our Lost Causers and makes they wander the streets, waving their arms around and loudly mumbling... "Corwin... Corwin... Corwin... Corwin... Corwin...Cor...win...C O R W I N !!!...
As if Corwin were some long lost lover you'd hope to return through constant repetition of her name... what is that?
The truth about Corwin is that it simply proposed what most then understood the Constitution already meant -- abolition was a state matter, the Federal government couldn't order abolition on states.
Outside the Border States Corwin went nowhere and was soon superseded by Civil War events.
Still our Lost Causers love, love, love to repeat Corwin's name... if only, if only...
Right?