[an amused spectator]

All slavery was ended by the Emancipation Proclamation

You're correct. All slavery was NOT ended by the EP.

No federal income tax could have been perpetrated on a confederacy

Open to debate.

Over two hundred and fifty thousand Americans died on U.S. soil in the war between the North and the South

What are your numbers? I have varying totals.

[Non-Sequitur]

Open to debate.

Hardly, considering that Jefferson Davis did institute an income tax.

What are your numbers? I have varying totals.

The figures I've seen run between 620,000 and 650,000 dead on both sides from all causes.