Abraham Lincoln: Is It Fictional Or Fact?

How accurate is Lincoln? Is it fictional or facts? Well, to be honest we can’t just base our judgment based on a Hollywood to say whether it’s fictional or facts. Any movies that matter of facts will have some added dramas or fictional to it to make it interesting or appeal to the audience or just for pure propaganda reasons. Personally, I do not believe everything I watch or hear, I usually check with the other sources and historical documents and above all I go with my own God given judgement.
Based on what I know a little bit about American history and read a few articles about Abraham Lincoln’s articles, I must say movie was fairly accurate. I may not vouch for, word for word dialogues that President Lincoln had with his soldiers, house
maids or that matter of fact with his wife in the bedroom. Who documents these things, anyway?
As movie states he did have a reoccurring dreams that often spoke of a mysterious recurring dream about a ship. However, Lincoln usually interpreted the dream as being not about the 13th amendment, as mentioned by his wife, but instead as being an omen of military victory. Lincoln’s secretary of the navy, Gideon Welles mentions in his writing. According to the White House guard William Henry Crook, even the night before the assassination he had a dream.
Arguments and conversations between President Lincoln and his Mary Todd Lincoln partially dramatized and partially accurate. When Mary Todd tells Lincoln asking not to let his son go for war, it is very Hollywood, just my commonsense says in real life husband and wife do not have a conversation like that. On the other hand at the end she mentions to Lincoln, “All everyone will remember of me was that I was crazy and that I ruined your happiness.” This may be partially true, because only mother will know the pain of losing a child in a young age and she might become insane over it, during that time it might have been hard for both for Lincoln and as well as for Mary Todd Lincoln.
Passing the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery. As the movie portraits, it took many people work together, argue over the subject, agreeing and disagreeing, and many road blocks on the way, all might have been true. Especially those three men who worked hard to convince the people to say “Yes,” for the vote may not been exactly how it is shown in the movie. I found it, it was overly dramatized, which is okay; gives the flavor to the movie. But I am sure those three men played a very big role passing the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Thaddeus Stevens’ support for black suffrage, which provides one of Lincoln’s central conflicts, really was one of his most radical and controversial stances.
The languages that Steven uses and how he insults the other congress men etc., are very Hollywood and I believe in 1865 men were gentlemen, I am sure they disagreed with each other, but it is hard to believe that would had used the language as movie states.
Mary Todd Lincoln did insist that Robert Todd Lincoln stay in college rather than enlisting in the army. Since she had already lost two sons, Edward Lincoln and William Lincoln, and I am sure as a mother she did not want to lose another son as well. I believe that Lincoln wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant, to request that his son Robert Todd Lincoln would serve under his protection and care.
Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, shortly after 10 p.m., actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. As Lincoln slumped forward in his seat, Booth leapt onto the stage and escaped through the back door. A doctor in the audience rushed over to examine the paralyzed president. Lincoln was then carried across the street to Petersen's Boarding House, where he died early the next
morning.