Although the war continued, the writers of the North never gave up any opportunity to make up stories.

The truth and falsehood of these stories make readers in the north feel confused on the one hand, and readers in the south feel confused on the other.

Although it is still the early days of the Civil War, for some reason, even the so-called chicken soup story in the late Civil War has appeared:

In the latter part of the American Civil War, late one night, General Ott in the North was studying the battle plan under the lamp, when a subordinate came in to report that he had just captured a Southern soldier on the battlefield, suspected to be a spy who had come to spy on the military.

Under the glare of the light, the southern soldier was cold and hungry, his face was full of exhaustion, and he kept explaining that he was not an agent, but just homesick and crazy, and took advantage of the night to escape, but unexpectedly strayed into the enemy camp. General Ott looked grim and observed carefully for a long time, and suddenly, he ordered his subordinates loudly: "Get this child something to eat, put on a blanket, and look at this war, what this child has become like!" When the southern soldier had eaten and warmed up, General Ott ordered him to be sent out of the front line, and admonished: "Go home quickly, never come back." ”

Seeing what General Ott did, his subordinates were a little unsure, and said, "General, can we be sure that he is not a spy?" General Ott said meaningfully: "Anything can be disguised, but the expression of homesickness cannot be pretended." Because at the moment, I am in the same mood as him. ”

On April 9, 1865, Grant and Robert Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Army, led a group to the town of Appomatox, Virginia, and signed an agreement for the surrender of the South in a small two-story building called the Michaelins House. On this momentous moment in history, everyone asked the homeowner, Michalins, for something as a memento. In a few moments, almost all the furniture in the living room had been bought, and only the table that had signed the surrender remained in place. General Ott also wanted to bring something back, but it was almost impossible for his modest salary to buy the table with the marble top.

At this moment, the owner of the house, Michaelins, came up and said, "This table is of great significance, so let's give it to you as a souvenir of the general." Ott was amazed and asked, "This is too valuable, why did you give it to me for nothing?" McLins said sincerely: "General, do you remember the Confederate soldier you let go? ”

If such a single article appeared by chance, when another article appeared in the media about President Lincoln, the atmosphere changed a little.

This story was not published in the media under the umbrella of the American Press Group.

Even, in the beginning, no one saw it.

But when it began to spread as a pamphlet, it frightened everyone, including Doug.

What kind of story is this?

Here's a story about the assassination of President Lincoln:

On a misty night, the burlesque at Ford's Theatre gradually came to a climax. In the theater box, President Lincoln and his wife admired the nerves of his busy affair that could only be regulated at this moment. At this time, a mysterious person walked through the corridor on the second floor and suddenly entered the presidential box. The man pulled out his pistol and pointed it at Lincoln's head, pulled the trigger, and with a "bang", Lincoln fell. It was April 14, 1865.

The president was assassinated, and the theater was in chaos. Taking advantage of the doctor's arrival to rescue Lincoln, the murderer fled the theater. The guards chased the Assassin and the Assassin was killed, and it was later revealed that he was an ardent slave-owning champion born in Maryland, southern America. His assassination was a political assassination planned by the slave-owning manor owners in the South.

Why did these lords hate Lincoln so much?

Originally, after independence, the United States was initially divided into free states in the north and slave states in the south. The north mainly developed industry and advocated abolition, while the south was dominated by agricultural estates. Plantation, especially cotton cultivation, required a lot of labor, and the owners of the estates stubbornly insisted on slavery and used a large number of black slaves in order to make more money. Black slaves were blacks who were sold in large quantities from Africa to the North American continent by Western slave traders during the development of the North American colonies. Not only were they imprisoned in the manor, but they were not only required to work eighteen or nineteen hours a day, but they were also beaten, killed, and even sold like cattle by the director of the manor. They have no personal freedom for the rest of their lives, and even their children are born slaves.

The brutal and inhumane persecution of black slaves by the lords of the estates in the southern states not only provoked the rebellion of the black slaves, but also made the American people, especially the white workers, peasants, intellectuals, and citizens of the northern states, deeply dissatisfied. These righteous whites set off the abolitionist movement and advocated the emancipation of black slaves. In newspapers, books, and speeches, abolitionists denounced the cruelty and incivility of slavery; They also helped some slaves escape to the Free Northern States, which advocated the emancipation of slaves. Lincoln was one of the politicians who advocated the abolition of slavery.

In 1861, Lincoln won the election as the Republican candidate against slavery and became president of the United States. The owners of the southern estates were deeply frightened that the eleven southern states actually united, declared their secession from the United States, established their own "Southern Union" government, and also raised a "president" who stubbornly insisted on slavery. In April 1861, Confederate forces shelled Fort Sumter, which was guarded by Union forces, provoking the Civil War that divided the United States.

In order to maintain the unity of the American Union, Lincoln immediately issued a conscription and mobilization order, determined to suppress the "Southern Alliance" rebellion that divided the United States.

Although the Northern Army was widely supported by the people, it was hastily formed, while the Southern Army was well prepared because of the manor's long-term planning, and the two sides fought many battles in a year and a half from 1861, and the Northern Army was repeatedly defeated, and even Washington was in a hurry several times.

Lincoln was anxious. He discovered the crux of the problem in time: the Northern Army lacked generals who were good at commanding. And he believed that mobilizing the vast number of blacks to devote themselves to the fight for their own liberation was the key to winning the war.

As a result, Lincoln presided over the passage of the Homestead Act and the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation, which came into force on January 1, 1863, proclaimed that the black slaves in the southern states would henceforth be granted personal freedom forever. Their personal rights would be guaranteed by the government and the army, and blacks under the right conditions would be allowed to join the Northern Army if they were free.

As soon as the Emancipation Proclamation was announced, 180,000 blacks took up arms and joined the fight to liberate their fellow citizens. From then on, the Civil War was not only a war to maintain the unity of the United States, but also had far-reaching significance in emancipating black slaves and safeguarding human rights. At the same time, Lincoln appointed General Grant as commander-in-chief of the Northern Army and promulgated the Conscription Act to ensure an adequate supply of soldiers for the troops. The Northern Army gradually gained the upper hand in the war.

On July 3, 1863, in the Battle of Getzburg, the Northern Army won a decisive victory, and the Southern Army suffered more than 36,000 casualties. The next day, good news also came from Vickersburg, and nearly 30,000 soldiers of the besieged Southern Army surrendered. Since then, the Southern Army has embarked on a downward slope of passive beating.

The reactionary manor owners in the south were still dying, sending spies, planning political assassinations, and desperate attempts to save the South army from a total defeat. This is how Lincoln's assassination took place.

Because of his vital injuries, Lincoln failed to resuscitate and died the next morning. His assistant was faced with Lincoln's body with infinite grief. They clearly remember that more than twenty hours ago, Lincoln was still busy with government affairs:

At 7 a.m., Lincoln appeared in the White House president's office, arranging for aides to remind Secretary of State Seward that a cabinet meeting was scheduled at 11 a.m.

After breakfast, the cabinet meeting begins. General Grant, who was specially invited by Lincoln, was also in attendance. For five days earlier, on April 9, 1865, Robert Lee, the main adversary of the Northern Army and commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, had surrendered at Abomatok with 28,000 soldiers. The day of victory is at hand. Lincoln repeatedly said that he would not retaliate and not persecute the generals and soldiers of the Southern Army: "Too much blood has been shed...... Let even the stubborn insurgents flee to foreign countries. Open the door, remove the fence, and let them run away......" Lincoln said, making a gesture to herd the sheep out of the slaughter.

After lunch, Lincoln signed another official document. On a document proposing pardon for deserters, he instructed: "Well, I think it's more appropriate for this person to stay on earth than underground......

It was such a president who mobilized the people to take up arms in order to maintain the unity of the country and advocate the emancipation of black slaves, and when the war was about to be fully won, he also advocated tolerance for his political enemies. The vicious killer maimed him. Of course, criminal machinations do not stop the wheels of history. Forty days later, the last Confederate army surrendered, and the Civil War ended with a complete victory for the Northern Army, and the brutal black slavery was declared extinct. The Declaration of Independence, the most important declaration in American history, proclaimed that "all men are created equal before God," were excluded from the rights of blacks at the time. Through his efforts, Lincoln finally returned this legal right to the black people in the United States in the form of law.

In the poem "Oh, Captain, My Captain," the poet Whitman compares the United States to a "ship," and the "captain" is President Lincoln, who died leading the United States to a struggle for unification and speeding up the process of democracy.

Oh, Captain, my Captain.

The voyage of suffering is complete.

Through the stormy seas,

to win today's victory......

He's cold,

Stopped breathing.

Such a tragic verse makes the people of the United States and even the world unable to forget Lincoln's exploits.

"Where did this story come from?" said Doug, who looked annoyed, slammed the pamphlet in his hand on Blair's desk.

Blair, as the president of the American newspaper group, is also a big man, but when he saw Doug's angry expression, he also began to get nervous.

You know, this is the first time Doug has done this.

"I'll see. Blair picked up the pamphlet on his desk and began to read.

Despite the subtlety of the atmosphere now, he doesn't read fast.

Because in any corner of an article, there may be very important information hidden.

However, the more he read the article, the more he felt that it was wrong.

What's wrong?

What's wrong is that if this story is a news report, the time in it has not yet arrived, which can be said to be nonsense.

But if it's just a simple story. However, there are nodes about major events, but the place names are clear and accurate to the day.

You know, based on Blair's previous experience.

He saw a draft like this, and if he changed the date, he changed the characters to non-Lincoln characters.

Then he would most likely believe it to be true.

You know, even the best reporters and editors can't know everything in the world.

If you want to judge something when you don't know the news, you need to have a judgment system.

Blair's judgment system for the merits of articles is very simple, that is, to look at the details.

If an article has no details, then it is most likely problematic.

If the details of an article contradict themselves, it is possible that the article was made up, or it is possible that the author's level is limited and the good things are poorly written.

However, although Blair is not sure who wrote this "report", he has to wonder why Doug is so grumpy.

What was the message that made him so irritable?

Is it the Northern Victory?

No!

No!

The boss has always wanted to see the victory of the north.

For this reason, the entire Claydon Group has paid a huge price, of course, at the same time, it also has a good income.

So what is the boss angry about?

Was it because of President Lincoln's assassination?

Oh!

That's right!

The boss and President Lincoln are good friends!

Wait a minute!

Something is wrong!

The boss is not worried about the assassination of the president!

If this is the case, there is only one truth, and the cold sweat on Blair's head will flow down.

He repeatedly pressed 10,000 sets of "Monopoly" on his body, and he struggled to raise his head and asked, "Boss, this article ......"

"Find out who sent it, find out who sent it. At the same time, send someone to send a copy to Washington, D.C., and make sure to confirm that it is in the hands of President Lincoln. ”

"Are you worried that there is a passage about the assassination of the president?" Blair asked, somewhat frightened.

Doug nodded, but didn't make a sound.

"I ...... I know...... I'm going to do it......" Blair suddenly felt so stupid, he wanted to whip himself a few times, why did he ask such a question?

Assassination...... President......

Even if it's a neuropathic gunman, how can it be so easy?

Don't......

Is one of the boss's plans missing?

Otherwise, why is the boss so nervous?

The more Blair thought about it, the more scared he became, and the more he thought about it, the more he didn't dare to think about it.

His heart trembled a little.

Just when he was at his most nervous, Doug spoke, "Blair, everyone has his place, don't they? Perhaps, sometimes it costs with lives. ”

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