This is a doozy too.

“ But the Emancipation Proclamation freed no one. Not a single slave.”

Actually during the War, there was a big question of what to do with slaves that the US military came across. Some returned them to their masters, some said they were free, but in the end they were still property, thus becoming “Contraband of War” (held for later return according to the Fugitive slave act which was still the law.

To say None were freed is a lie and a disservice. It takes but a few seconds to find the stories of those slaves celebrating their freedom, no longer contraband awaiting their return, but actual free men, women and children. To destroy that history, to erase their stories isn’t just historically wrong, it is immoral and sickening. That day tens of thousands of slaves were freed, and before the end of the war nearly 3 million slaves legally became free based on that proclamation.

You also say it was to deplete the Confederacy’s workforce. Not one instance can be found of Confederate held area’s willingly following the EP, and deciding to turn over their slaves. That is an outright lie not based in historical fact in any way.

You then mention his letter to Horace Greeley of his objective of the war (Regain control of the Confederacy). Ignoring to mention that as he wrote that letter, he had already shared his Emancipation Proclamation with some of his close advisors and had it in the desk he was sitting at. Also you ignore the context, provided by Greeley himself who said that Lincolns letter was written to attempt to soften the blow of his ensuing act to free the slaves. It seems you are attempting to destroy source history when it doesn’t fit the story you wish to tell.