At the start of the war,General Winfield Scott,the Union army's chief of staff,lobbied to allow Confederate slave owners to recover slaves who crossed the Potomac River.

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This statement is true. General Winfield Scott proposed this idea in a letter to Secretary of War Simon Cameron on May 27, 1861. He believed that it would prevent Maryland from seceding and help maintain the loyalty of border state slaveholders to the Union. However, President Lincoln rejected the proposal, as it contradicted the Union's stance against slavery.

At the Start of the War,General Winfield Scott,the Union Army's