{"id":92113,"date":"2017-11-29T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T20:54:33","slug":"abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-facts-vs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/29\/abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-facts-vs\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter Facts vs. Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<p>The recently published book &#8220;Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter&#8221; by  Seth Grahame-Smith has attracted a lot of interest from readers in  recent weeks.   It&#8217;s garnering great reviews, including one I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/book-review-abraham-lincolnvampire.html\">here<\/a>.    The book is well-written and Grahame-Smith has skillfully blended  historical fact with a fun fictional account of Lincoln as a hunter of  vampires.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been struck, though, by how many &#8220;hits&#8221; this blog  has been receiving from people who are trying to determine what is  fictional and what is fact in the book.   As a small public service, I  thought I&#8217;d help out those who are having difficulty in this area.   The  list below touches on some of the major events in the book.  WARNING:   There will most likely be spoilers here!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Secret Journal Of Abraham Lincoln <\/em>&#8211; complete fiction.  It would be a major historical find if such a journal were ever to be discovered.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincoln  befriending Edgar Allen Poe &#8211; also fiction.  The real Lincoln loved  Poe&#8217;s works of poetry and fiction, but the two gentlemen never met in  real life.  That photo in the book which shows them posing together?    Nicely faked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincoln venturing to Mississippi  to confront Jefferson Davis &#8211; fiction.   The two probably did meet  somewhere along the way, but Lincoln never travelled to Mississippi to  confront him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The photos &#8211; mostly doctored,  blatantly or not.   Most of the photos in the book have been &#8220;enhanced&#8221;  to go along with the story.   For example, Jefferson Davis and John  Wilkes Booth never posed together for a photo.   The photo with Lincoln  sitting in General McClellan&#8217;s tent at Antietam is real enough, with the  exception of the ax shown next to Lincoln.   The photo showing the  close-up with the skull on the battlefield?   Mostly real, with the  exception of the fangs.   <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincoln in New  Orleans &#8211; fact.   Lincoln did travel twice to New Orleans, once in 1828,  and once in 1830.   He was hired to deliver crops and other cargo from  Illinois down the Mississippi River.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincoln&#8217;s  mother Nancy dying when Abe was 9 &#8211; fact.  She indeed died when Abe was  only 9, but from drinking milk poisoned by a cow eating white snake  root, a poisonous plant.   <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincoln&#8217;s son Willie dying in 1862 &#8211; fact.   He died of typhoid fever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vampires &#8211; sorry, folks.  Henry <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Sturges<\/span> is fictional.   So are all the other vampires which pop up in the story.   I didn&#8217;t really have to tell you this, did I?    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently published book &#8220;Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter&#8221; by Seth Grahame-Smith has attracted a lot of interest from readers in recent weeks. It&#8217;s garnering great reviews, including one I wrote here. The book is well-written and Grahame-Smith has skillfully blended historical fact with a fun fictional account of Lincoln as a hunter of vampires. 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