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 Personally, I do not believe everything I watch or hear, I usually check with the other sources and historical documents and above all I go with my own God given judgement.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 …show more content…
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
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 …show more content…
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