Claim: When President Abraham Lincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation, "there were over 300,000 slaveholders who were fighting in the Union army."
Fact-check: No, 300,000 slave owners did not fight on the Union side in the Civil War
Verdict: pants-fire
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Jon Greenberg
Date published: 2015-07-27T00:00:00