10-year-old rural worker first arrived in the American trading city of New Orleans.
He had seen such a big city for the first time in his life. He was very impressed to see the magnificent buildings and the huge ships anchored on the shore
Then a scene struck his eyes. Then this scene was forever embedded in the far corners of his mind.
He saw that people were being bought and sold in the market of the city. Human beings are being sold and bought like commodities, like commodities.
Helpless people in chains are being loaded and unloaded from ships.
The cruelty was that in the markets of New Orleans, advertisements were placed on which day, at what time, how many people would bid and how many men, children and women would be among them.
It was also written that the buyers should bring cash because the slave-selling company did not deal in loans.
The irony was that all these people were black. White enslaved black.
This young villager was looking at people selling in the market, he was crying inside, but he could not do anything.
Because he himself was a minor employee on a small boat. Still, he told his partner, "If I get the chance, I'll stop this business at any cost."
Saying this, this eighteen-year-old villager had seen such a big dream that he had to be the most powerful man of his time to realize it.
This is the Sangamon River and this beautiful little town of New Salem on its banks.
This is the place where Abraham Lincoln spent the first six years of his youth and it is here where the medals of life's biggest failures were decorated on his chest.
But what a successful person he was before coming here. Fate was also constantly playing with him.
When he was only nine years old, his mother died of a poisonous herb found in her milk. Then his father brought his stepmother.
He had no complaints about his stepmother, but Abraham never did with his father. Rather, he did not like his father.
His father also used to taunt and beat him. He was also educated to the extent that he knew how to read and write.
He also memorized parts of the Bible and Shakespeare's poetry. But he didn't understand this calculation.
He was not a good person even from his face. There were strange and unwanted cuts on his face.
He could not speak English well either, his accent had an edge.
If there was one thing that stood out in his whole persona, personality, it was his height.
He was six feet, four inches tall and that made him the center of attention everywhere. And his conversation after that.
So friends, this log cabin you see in New Salem is where Abraham Lincoln started his career as a storekeeper.
There used to be a few people in this settlement, but if there were many, there would be a hundred. These were his customers.
Some other people would stop for a while while traveling in the river and buy a few things from the store.
The store contained candles, small bottles of wine, and some dishes.
But oh the failures of destiny. Lincoln, who came here in search of a better career, lost his career after a few months.
Because the owner of the store closed the store due to constant losses and fired Lincoln.
The first badge of self-earned failure was emblazoned on his chest.
Although Abraham had failed in the first nine months of New Salem, he had achieved one success.
That was Honest Ebb, the fame of the honest man. It so happened that one day a woman took some goods from Lincoln's store. When she left and Lincoln noticed, her weight wasn't right.
Some were mild. So what Lincoln did was to take as much stuff as he could and go to the woman's house and give it to her.
This event, and many others like it, occurred in New Salem, giving Abraham Lincoln the title of Honest Ab.
Because of this reputation, Lincoln decided to participate in the state election of 1832.
He believed that all the people of New Salem township would vote for him and some other people from the surrounding area would vote for him and he would become a member of the state assembly of Al Noi.
But what happened was that he lost despite his good reputation. It was the second badge of personal earned failure that was emblazoned on his chest.
But don't worry, there was still plenty of room on the 6-foot-4-inch man's chest for more seeds of this kind.
After losing the first election, the twenty-three-year-old Lincoln was empty-handed, hungry.
To move forward in life, he used his strength and began to work as a woodcutter.
Then someone suggested that you become a postman, you will earn good money, so he became a postman and started delivering letters from door to door.
Even here, if the dal was not found, he started surveying together with the surveyors.
But even this employment was not according to his needs and temperament. He then took advantage of his height to challenge New Salem's wrestling champion.
But even here he could not win. It is also said that he lost on purpose. To win the sympathy of the wrestling champion and his friends.
And see that he also won these sympathies. These boys and the wrestling champion Armstrong became his close friends and served him well in his future political career.
But he was not satisfied with friendship. Yes, there could have been a partnership. So he opened the Berry Lincoln Store with his friend William Berry.
When it started to sell a little, he bought oneAgain they started to fight in politics.
In 1834, the state assembly election was held and he won.
This was his first success in a life full of failures. But this success still did not solve his employment problem.
He used to get three dollars on the day when the assembly was in session and that was it.
Then he became active in politics and was not able to devote time to his store at all.
Now the next year 1835 proved to be a painful year of his life.
First, his store partner and close friend, William Harry, dies. Then the store also closed.
When the store closed, the store was eighteen hundred dollars in debt. This was a large sum by the time, and it took Lincoln fifteen years to raise it.
He jokingly called this debt the national debt. But a wound deeper than debt and Barry's death came from Anne Rutledges.
Anne was the girl from New Salem whom Lincoln met in his store. Ann was so beautiful that Lincoln fell in love with her.
But the problem was that this girl had promised to marry someone else.
According to psychologists, once you fall in love with someone, the way back is difficult.
So Lincoln spent hours talking to her in and out of the store. Both continued to meet on the bank of the river.
But tragedy struck that same year a typhoid epidemic broke out and Anne Rutledges succumbed to the fever.
Where the plaque stands today was Anne's cabin where Lincoln met her for the last time.
And on the same memorial board it is written that under a banyan tree nearby, Lincoln was crying bitterly.
Nature had planted three seeds of failure on his chest in a single year, one of which was a bit deeper.
Lincoln visited Ann's grave many times during his lifetime.
Two years after Ann and William Berry's death, he packed up, hugged his friends, and moved to the nearby town of Springfield, calling New Salem home forever.
However, the New Salem settlement of his youthful hopes was now fading. Because this settlement was settled only so that steamboats would pass through the Sangamon River and the area would become a commercial market along the way.
But steamboats could not run due to lack of sanitation in the Sangamon River. The city was destroyed in the third year of Lincoln's departure.
Lincoln never returned to New Salem. Yes, some say he sometimes visited Anne Rutledge's grave.
When Lincoln came to Springfield, his world changed. He started practicing law in Springfield, earning good money and slowly paying off his debt.
And he also got married to Mary Todd, a girl from a very big noble family.
From here, he once became a member of the US House of Representatives and stayed in Washington for two years. But all this soon lost its appeal.
Because he could not forget the slaves he saw earlier in his life who were being sold in chains.
He wanted to raise his voice against slavery, but his own party, the Whig Party, was not with him. His voters also began to dislike him for his views.
So he became disillusioned and left politics. And started focusing only on advocacy.
He spent his free time with his wife and children, but he seemed to have completely forgotten his father and stepmother.
Life might have gone on like this and no one would have known Abraham Lincoln. But it so happened that when Lincoln was leaving politics, a debate was raging in America at that time.
That is whether black slavery should be abolished or not. America was divided into two distinct parts in those days. On the one hand, there were the southern states of America whose economy depended on farming and agriculture.
But the problem was that people in the southern states did not employ black slaves to farm and work on farms.
In return, the slaves were provided with permanent accommodation and food. These 24-hour slaves had no rights.
Therefore, the landowners of the southern states paid black slaves much cheaper than white laborers. This was the reason why people in the southern states did not want to abolish slavery.
But on the other hand there were the northern states where an industrial revolution was coming. Farms were being replaced by factories.
A large number of whites worked in factories, creating a middle class. The interest of this class was also not connected with the farm but with the factory.
If factory owners were allowed to own slaves in these northern states as well, the factory owner could evict the whites and keep black slaves for free.
Which obviously would have made the whites unemployed in large numbers. Therefore, one was a moral principled position and the other was an economic problem, due to which most of the whites living in the northern states wanted to legally abolish slavery from the entire United States.
In the 1850s, opposition to slavery in the Northern states and support for slavery in the South intensified.
As it happened, this intensity increased so much that blood started to spill over the issue. The American Civil War had begun.
Both supporters and opponents of slavery now went beyond debate and began to take each other's lives. Both support and opposition to slavery were handed down from Babylon.
These were the circumstances in which Lincoln put aside the lawyer's files and went to the market.
There was a crowd in the market and people watching a speech by Democrat Senator Stephen Douglas
were listening
Senator Douglas was speaking in favor of maintaining slavery. He did not consider blacks as human beings equal to whites.
He was saying that white Americans have the right to decide in each state whether they want to keep black slaves or not.
When Stephen Douglas had finished his smoky speech, Lincoln stepped forward. He said to the people gathered there that tomorrow I will tell you how stupid and weightless the arguments of this man Senator Douglas are.
Now the people in Springfield knew Lincoln, so they came to hear the speech the next day.
Lincoln spoke for three hours and argued against slavery. His main point was that Douglas's argument could only be valid if you refused to consider blacks as human beings.
But if you consider them as human beings, then no single human being can be given the right to decide whether or not to keep another human being as a slave.
Black people are also human and free. Lincoln's arguments touched the hearts of many people. After which a series went on and Lincoln started giving speeches against slavery. He became increasingly popular among anti-slavery activists.
In those days, Abraham Lincoln's old Whig Party was dying out and anti-slavery politicians in America formed a new party called the Republican Party. Lincoln joined this new party.
In 1858, he once again tried to contest the senatorship election from the same party. In comparison, he had the same old rival, Stephen Douglas.
Lincoln decided that he would defeat his opponent by debating him directly.
Thinking this, he challenged Douglas to a debate. Douglas accepted the challenge.
Lincoln and Douglas had seven three-hour debates in different cities across Illinois.
On one side was a fat-bellied five-foot-four-inch Douglas and on the other was a lean six-foot-four-inch Lincoln.
When the two came face to face, people couldn't help but smile at the difference in their stature.
People started calling Douglas the Little Giant and Lincoln the Long Ebb.
His debates and debates were becoming so popular that thousands of people would come to see them, and even the peddlers would get silver. They made money by selling badges with the names of Douglas and Lincoln.
People were coming in large numbers to witness these famous scenes, but secretly another revolution was at work.
So my curious fellows, this revolution was tick tick tick. media. Print Journalism
By this time the telegraph had been invented and news was now carried across America by wire rather than by rail.
Reporters used to write the entire news in shorthand and send it to the office by telegraph machine.
Where the news was hidden from the raiding station and spread across America the next day through the railroad.
The camera had also been invented, and the pictures taken with it were printed in newspapers. It was a new thing in the world.
He began to spread interesting accounts of Lincoln's anti-slavery arguments and debates across America.
The pro-slavery Douglass and the anti-slavery Lincoln's arguments were read with pleasure and political tips were exchanged.
At the same time, Abraham Lincoln lost to Douglas when the centrship election was held. But despite the defeat, his name had now become a symbol against black slavery.
He had become so popular that his name was mentioned somewhere as a US presidential candidate.
Of course, the person who recently lost the centristship election could not have imagined it. But he had to do this concept soon because first his state of Illinois declared him the presidential candidate.
Then at the Chicago National Convention, his name was taken seriously as an American presidential candidate. This was where the actual decision was to be made as to who would be the Republican presidential candidate.
The new party was new and wanted a candidate they could bet on for victory as they had lost the previous presidential election.
Now they wanted to see their president in the White House at any cost.
Lincoln's name was debated, some other candidates were also discussed, but the beauty of Lincoln was that no one was against him.
After a hundred debates, it was agreed and a failed businessman, a failed lover and a failed senator were nominated as the US presidential candidate.
When this nomination took place, Abraham Lincoln was not present at this meeting. He was sitting at home hundreds of miles away playing handball.
When the news reached his area, a crowd of well-wishers gathered in front of his house. People were chanting with joy.
The Republican nomination was essentially the same thing as winning the election. Because in his thesis, the Democrats could not come up with a single unanimous candidate.
In his competition, the Democrats had two candidates, one was his old opponent, Senator Stephen Douglas, and the other was John Brackenridge from the southern states.
This division of the Democrats greatly benefited Lincoln. Elections were held on November 6, 1860.
Voting was taking place all over America, but interestingly, in the southern states, Lincoln did not have the slightest support.
Even his name was not on the ballot paper. Yet when the results came in, Lincoln won.
Interestingly, his votes were 300,000 less than the combined votes of both the Democrats. But obviously they were divided.
According to the American election formula, Lincoln was elected the new president by winning one hundred and eighty electoral votes from eighteen states
It was done. While Lincoln was elected, America was divided into two parts.
Southern states that wanted to keep slavery rebelled and declared independence when Lincoln won.
The Confederate States of America created its own country, with a separate flag and assembly, and made Senator Davis the president of the new United States.
Time handed Lincoln the greatest challenge in American history even before he was sworn in. But to meet this challenge he had to take oath first.
For which he had to reach Washington DC, sixteen hundred and four miles away from Springfield.
But along this 1,500 mile long route there were groups of pro-slavery, anti-Lincoln.
He threatened to kill Lincoln if he did not resign and come to Washington to be sworn in.
At that time there were no airplanes, one had to go by train with steam engines and on the way his mortal enemies were holding arms.
What happened then? How did Lincoln get to Washington? How serious was Abraham Lincoln on his promise to end slavery after assuming the presidency?
Or became a victim of expediency? Why was the media against him? Why did Lincoln fire many generals including his army chief?
What was the decision that made Abraham Lincoln one of the greatest leaders in history?
So guys, we will show you all this in the second part of Who Was Lincoln?
On February 11, 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln addressed his supporters in Springfield.
He said this is where I have lived for a quarter of a century, my children were born here and a burial is also in this land.
I don't know if I will ever be able to come back to this place again because I have a big challenge in Washington.
Abraham Lincoln was giving this speech at a time when the United States was broken, he was going to Washington to take the presidential oath.
He had to save his country as well as his reputation. He was an inexperienced president and he fully realized it. How did Lincoln face the greatest challenge in American history?
We will show you all this in the second part of Main Hoon Faisal Waraich and Dekho Suno Jaanoo's mini series Lincoln Who Tha.
On February 22, 1861, that is, in nine days, President-elect Abraham Lincoln's train reached Philadelphia.
He used to address his supporters on the way. Now Washington DC where he was to be sworn in was not far away. But there was Baltimore on the way.
There were a lot of supporters of slavery here. So his security officer told him that the rebels were planning a knife attack on him in Baltimore.
He will be attacked when he sticks his head out of the car to address his supporters in Baltimore.
So, to protect the president-elect, Lincoln's train was changed so quietly that no one knew.
Lincoln arrived in Washington on another train. But the train Lincoln was scheduled to ride was not attacked in Baltimore.
So it is said that Lincoln's security in charge showed a little more movement. These movements did not impress Lincoln, but he became very infamous.
They were such that when the original first train arrived in Baltimore, Lincoln was greeted by a crowd. Journalists were also among them. But when Lincoln did not get out of this train, his supporters were very disappointed.
But when the press got word that Lincoln had changed trains in Baltimore because of an assassination threat, they had a story on their hands.
The pro-rebel newspapers used this story to portray President-elect Abraham Lincoln as cowardly and cowardly.
They started printing cartoons and making stories about how a cowardly leader, frightened by a threat, changed trains and hid in a seat.
Someone showed him looking out of the train with a frightened expression. Someone showed him galloping with long legs as if he was running away from the fear of death.
The press invaded by storm. Remember that the newspapers were also divided, those who were against slavery had a soft spot for Lincoln.
And those who supported slavery did not miss any opportunity to ridicule it.
Such were the circumstances under which Lincoln took the oath of office in Washington DC on March 4, 1861. Since the swearing-in ceremony was also not free from the threat of attack by the rebels, cannons were also installed at important places here.
Snipers were placed on rooftops and Lincoln's first inauguration took place under tight security.
Here Lincoln was to deliver his first historic address. His supporters had hoped that today he would announce a strategy to end slavery.
Lincoln himself wanted the same. But when he took out the handwritten speech and began to read it, he had not written anything like that.
On the contrary, he said that "in the states where the system of slavery is established, I have no intention of interfering with it."
Because legally I have no authority to interfere in the internal affairs of states.
But then he also threatened the southern states in soft words. "My angry countrymen, the matter of civil war is now in your hands," he said.
The government will never attack you first. But if you attack, there will be a fight.
What you have promised to destroy the government is not a heavenly scripture. But the pledge I made to save America is very firm and I will keep it.”
After that, Lincoln came to his office and sat down. But the people who were coming to meet him seemed frivolous. He is his own
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The people who came to meet him were disappointed to see his frivolity. They felt that after becoming president, Lincoln had forgotten the challenge and promise for which the people had voted him.
But it was not so. Because the rebel states were in front of him. From the window of the White House, across the river, the rebel capital of Virginia could be seen.
The city of Richmond in the same state was the capital of the rebels. Colonel Jefferson, the president of the Confederates, was sitting in the same city.
Now the matter was such that Lincoln could not for a moment ignore it.
His suffragette supporters insisted on crossing the Potomac River and attacking Virgina and destroying it.
The Americans believed that defeating the rebels was out of the question for the Union Army, i.e. mainland America. But Lincoln did not want to initiate an attack, waiting for the rebels to make a mistake.
So the rebels soon made this mistake. When they attacked Fort Sumter, an important Union fortress, Lincoln ordered his army to prepare.
Note that the United States at that time did not have a regular large military like countries have today. Which is always active.
At that time, in many countries, including the United States, work was carried out by recruiting young men when needed. So on Lincoln's orders, 75,000 young men were recruited for three months.
They started training quickly. Now the atmosphere of war was beginning to form.
At the beginning of the war, it was clear that Lincoln had more power in the northern states.
Because the number of northern states was 23 and the area was more. On the other hand, the number of southern states was only 11.
The northern states had so many factories that they could manufacture as many arms as they wanted, while the rebels had none.
The population of the northern states was also two million and two million, which means that the army could also be recruited more
But the rebel states had a total population of 9 million, including 4 million black slaves who hated their masters and could pose a threat to the southern states.
Yes, there was one thing in which the rebels had some advantage over Lincoln. That was their president being a military expert. This thing becomes very important in war situations.
Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, was an accomplished military officer. He participated in the Mexican War and was victorious.
So in this situation, the day came on July 21, 1861. Lincoln ordered his General Irwin McDowell to attack the rebel stronghold of Virginia.
For the Americans, the order to attack was like a game. Since Virginia was right in front of Washington, there was only a river in the middle.
So on the day of the battle, when Union troops were marching to invade Virginia, the citizens of Washington gathered on a high ground to watch the battle.
These were rich people, they had come sitting on chariots, they had brought food and drink and also wine, as if they had come to watch a match and celebrate a picnic, not a war.
The same was the case with young American soldiers. They were going to the battlefield feeling like heroes and heroes.
Because ninety percent of them had no idea of the horrors of war.
When the young American army under the leadership of General Irwin McDowell crossed the Potomac River and faced live ammunition from the front, the young army was crushed.
The sounds of battle, the roar of cannons, the blood flowing from the dead bodies and the screams of the wounded were enough to make one lose consciousness.
So first these young men ran away from the battlefield and then the picnickers were also stampeded.
All together ran towards the boars which broke many of the boars. They left the picnic stuff there and hunkered down in their homes with barely a chance.
This battle is remembered as the Battle of Bull Run.
Lincoln could not sleep that night. He was asking the returnees from the battlefield in detail one by one.
It was an unexpected, surprise defeat. Therefore, to show his position strong and to boost morale, he ordered three commanders to attack.
The commanders agreed but spent months preparing for the attack.
During all this, Lincoln was realizing that his generals looked very alert in their uniforms, but had no special skills in fighting.
He understood that a war cannot be fought on the trust of generals and cannot be abandoned.
Just as every challenge calls for a new man, so Lincoln also gave birth to a new man within himself at that time.
He ordered books on military strategies from the library and licked them all one by one.
After all, he used to do the same in his youth. This is how he learned to be a lawyer, this is how he read Shakespeare.
So he became a book general. Now he started planning the coming wars by sitting with his commanders.
Commanders followed his orders or were dismissed. First, he retired his commander-in-chief, Winfield Scott, because he no longer had the stamina to fight.
He then relieved General Irwin McDowell, who had lost the first battle, the 'Battle of Bull Run'.
In addition, he dismissed or retired several commanders during the war.
Now with each passing day the war was getting more intense. Sometimes the Union army would attack and sometimes defend important points in the southern states.
There were days when tens of thousands of Americans lost their lives in a single day. Blood and water
The flow was flowing.
Now Lincoln felt that he needed the powers of a dictator so that he would not have to seek the approval of Congress every time he made every important decision. Congress gave him these powers.
Under these powers he issued orders to arrest without trial those who were supporting the rebels.
Martial law was imposed where pro-slavery caused more problems.
Even newspapers that carried propaganda in support of the Confederate rebels were temporarily shut down.
Now Lincoln was in full command of the war, sitting at his table with the commanders of his choice.
On his instructions, the southern states were blockaded by sea so that these states could neither sell goods to Europe nor receive any help from America's enemies such as Britain and France.
Lincoln's policy was succeeding. The Union Army was winning and the United States was taking back territory from the rebels.
It seemed that the southern states would soon be on their knees. But then in 1862 two major changes took place.
Lincoln, who had witnessed the death of his three-year-old son in Springfield before taking the oath of office.
And now after taking the oath, while the war was going on, his 11-year-old son William Wells died of typhoid fever.
Lincoln took him down to the grave and locked the room for several hours and cried.
Then he wiped his tears, went out and took up his duties.
The second major event was that the rebel states, who were constantly being defeated, handed over the command of the war to an able general, Robert Lee.
General Robert Lee not only halted the advance of the Union Army in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, but he now began to advance into the northern states.
In how many places did Lincoln's army bring the Union Army into a defensive position?
The army of the rebel southern states under the command of General Lee was beginning to gain victories. The dice of war could turn.
But Lincoln still had a tarp in his pocket. That Lincoln should declare the abolition of slavery in the southern states.
Lincoln hoped that the four million black slaves in the southern states would rebel against their white masters and join his army.
He wanted to make this announcement but there was a problem. The problem was that at that time his army was being defeated.
If he had made this announcement now, it would have been considered that Abraham Lincoln had weakened and was making a last ditch effort out of desperation. So he stopped himself and waited for a victory.
On September 17, 1862, when General Lee was attacking around Washington, Lincoln jumped into the battlefield himself to save the capital.
Lincoln placed the command of the Union Army against General Lee in the hands of General McClellan. But due to the sensitivity of the matter, he himself reached the battle front.
He pitched a tent near the battlefield and sat there to watch the battle and issue orders.
This war was a matter of life and death for him. Because if General Lee had captured Washington, the central government of the northern states would have ended.
The great powers of that time, Great Britain and France, were waiting for General Lee to arrive in Washington and when he would recognize the government of the rebel states as the real government.
So now the decision of the fate of America was connected with this war.
The battle took place near the town of Sharpsburg, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg or the Battle of Antietam.
At the time of this battle, General Lee's position was very weak. The army was also tired and the stock of weapons was also very low. Now a fight could not be fought with empty guns.
So after some fighting, General Lee started retreating to save his army. And fighting skillfully he crossed the Potomac River back into Virginia.
He saved the bulk of his army but failed in his first offensive campaign, the capture of the northern states and especially Washington.
This battle, and thus September 17, was the bloodiest day of the American Civil War.
On that day, more than ten thousand soldiers of the rebel states and more than twelve thousand men of the Union army were killed or wounded.
And it also proved to be the last day for General McClellan who followed Lincoln's orders in this war.
Abraham Lincoln was very fed up with the slow pace of his General Key. Because General Lee's army was too small and too few weapons, General McClellan was not able to completely crush him.
Despite Lincoln's repeated orders, he did not pursue General Lee's fleeing army and completely crush it. Because if he did, the civil war could have ended a long time ago.
So Lincoln called the lazy general into his tent, met and dismissed him from command.
Although the rebel army was not completely crushed in the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln and his army were able to drive General Lee from their territories.
So it was a success that could be celebrated in public anyway. And this was exactly the moment Abraham Lincoln had been waiting for.
So, six days after this victory, Lincoln gave the rebels a deadline of January 1, 1863 through the media, that if they end the rebellion, it will be fine, otherwise slavery will be declared in their states.
Newspapers also printed cartoons on it. But the rebel states did not heed this warning.
January 1, 1863 is a memorable day in American history.
In the evening of that day, Lincoln signed the Proclamation Abolishing Slavery and the first BaSigning his name, he wrote his full name Abraham Lincoln. Otherwise, he usually just wrote A. Lincoln.
At that moment, he also said that if my name ever made history, it would be because of the Abolition of Slavery Act.
The act also included that the Union Army could now recruit blacks into the army. Hundreds of thousands of black slaves began to enlist in the Union army.
Although, according to Lincoln's estimate, the black slaves in the southern states did not revolt, a social unrest must have spread in these states about when and where the free slaves would revolt.
After this declaration, the Union Army won many victories. General Lee's dream of capturing Washington remained unfulfilled, but the problem was that even Lincoln's army was unable to capture the rebel headquarters.
And you know that there is no decisive defeat as long as the headquarters is secure.
So an attack was ordered on the rebel headquarters, Richmond, which was not far from Washington.
Lincoln's trusted general, General Grant, was leading the campaign.
The defense of Richmond was the responsibility of General Lee. The resistance of General Lee and his army was fierce. It was a battle in which the blood of American soldiers was flowing like water.
Four thousand Union soldiers were killed while the fighting was still going on. This was the point where the American nation's war frenzy was completely unleashed.
Now the Americans, who considered the war as a sport, were suffering its horrors.
Therefore, in the middle of the war, the demand to end the war began to gain momentum.
Meanwhile, the new American election also came to a head. The war was at such a stage that Lincoln could not stop it. Stopping the war meant giving the rebel states more time to prepare, which Lincoln obviously didn't want.
But just as the public was beginning to speak out against the war, his election was approaching, and the ground in the White House was beginning to slide.
And friends, do you know who stood in the election against him?
His competition was General George McClellan, whom Lincoln fired at the Battle of Antietam because he was too lazy. Attacks would take weeks and sometimes months.
This general had now entered politics and the Democrats had made him their presidential candidate.
Now the deposed general was asking the people to vote for him because by taking the vote he would not only end the war but also restore slavery.
Against such a powerful slogan, Lincoln had only one chance.
The odds were that Lincoln would win the first battle before November eighteen hundred and sixty-four, eighteen sixty-four. There is no need for a new president to make people feel that Lincoln's policies and war strategy are working.
What happened was that the Union Army, the army of the Northern States, conquered the capital of a rebel state, Georgia.
Another important event was that Lincoln's army was encircled around Richmond, Virginia, the center of the rebellion.
The last and strongest stronghold of the rebels was beginning to waver. This news was news of Lincoln's victory.
Before the election, American public opinion again swung in Lincoln's favor.
The general, who had proved slow in battle, also lagged behind Lincoln in politics. Lincoln received 212 and General McClellan only 21 electoral votes.
After winning the election, Lincoln abolished slavery throughout the United States through a constitutional amendment.
On that January day in 1865, Lincoln had realized the dream he had thirty-seven years earlier in New Orleans when he was a small boatman.
That's why they say that dreams must be seen because the problem with dreams is that they come true.
Within a month of Lincoln's second swearing-in, the rebels' power had died down.
One by one, the American flag was again hoisted on the rebel states. But conquering their center, Richmond, was essential.
As long as he stood, the abolitionists were not completely defeated, and America could not be reunited.
On April 3, 1865, the Union flag finally flew over Richmond.
Six days after this incident, on April 9, 1865, the defeated rebel General Lee surrendered to General Grant of the Union Army.
A month later, Jefferson Davis, president of the rebel states and a veteran military officer, was also captured.
The American Civil War was over after four years and six million people had died fighting each other.
But now it was time for another difficult decision for Lincoln: what to do with the defeated rebels?
It was decided on April 11, two days after General Lee's surrender.
On April 11, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was standing in the window of the White House giving a historic speech.
In his hand were small slips of paper, on which he had written points for his reminder. He would discuss one point at a time and throw down the slip.
His twelve-year-old son, sitting near his father's feet, was catching every paper that fell.
In such a situation, a voice was raised from the crowd, "What should be done with the rebels?"
There was a question from the crowd, the answer came from the crowd. Hang Dem, Hang Dem. Hang it, hang it.”
But why did Lincoln's twelve-year-old son, Njane, startle and scream before his presidential father?
"No We Must Hang On To Them." We must hang on to them. Ted had interpreted his father's feelings perfectly.
It was Abraham Lincoln's decision that instead of punishing the rebels, they should be pardoned and reconciled so that the bitterness would decrease instead of increasing.
So to take part in the civil warRebel soldiers and politicians were pardoned.
Even those who showed bravery were recognized as heroes by the rebels and their monuments were allowed to be erected in their territories.
The war was over, but this nerve-wracking battle had further damaged Lincoln's health, suffering from depression.
At the same time, the death of his eleven-year-old son had also pierced his liver.
The death of two sons had also made his wife a psychopath. She used to scold Lincoln and his staff at the White House for petty things.
At which Lincoln would be troubled but silent. A portrait of Abraham Lincoln was made in the last days of the war. In which it was evident that fifty-three years of life had not aged him as much as four years of war had done.
It is a coincidence that while taking a picture, the glass of the camera first got cracked, it got a crack. Then the negative on which the image was preserved also broke.
It was during these days that one night Lincoln had a dream. He notices the sound of crying coming from the White House room he walks into.
His thirty-seven-year-old dream had come true, but what was this dream?
Who killed Lincoln, how and why? What happened to those who killed him?
Why couldn't Lincoln's guards save him? Why was Lincoln's body exhumed seventeen times?
Now, where Lincoln is buried, is Lincoln buried there? All of this will be shown to you but in the third and final part of Who Was Lincoln?
This was in the early days of April 1865. Lincoln had a dream.
He found himself walking through the rooms of the White House and heard crying coming from every room. He entered the East Room of the White House following the sounds.
There he saw a body wrapped in a shroud, with its face covered, with many people sitting beside it, weeping. Lincoln asked a guard who had died in the White House.
The guard replied, President. He was killed by an assassin.
With these words there was a cry from the crowd and Lincoln's eyes opened.
In the last episode of Main Hoon Faisal Waraich and Dekho Suno Jaanu's mini-series Abraham Lincoln, we will show you this story.
As Abraham Lincoln became president, he began receiving death threats. You have seen the failed Baltimore plot in the second part.
Lincoln received so many threatening letters that he didn't have time to read them, and he packed them all into a large envelope with ASSASSINATION in bold letters.
It was the fear of his assassination that his close associates forced Lincoln to keep security. The army was stationed on the lawn of the White House.
If Lincoln went out for a picnic, the cavalry would be with him. But even with these arrangements, Lincoln's heart was not satisfied.
He once said that if someone planned to kill me, he would do it, no matter what iron armor I wore or how many guards I had.
Because once the decision is made to kill someone, there can be a thousand ways to kill him.
On the morning of April 14, 1865, Lincoln rose early as usual and did some business before breakfast.
Then the rest of the day went on as usual. Lincoln attended a cabinet meeting and also met with General Grant.
He ordered that no reprisals be taken against any person in the rebel states.
"No more bloodshed," said Lincoln. Much blood has already been shed.
Then he went to his office after lunch and decided some court martial applications.
Lincoln also commuted the death penalty of a rebel spy and pardoned a deserter from the Union Army.
In the afternoon, Lincoln said to his wife, "I have never been so happy in my life."
A little before evening, Lincoln and his wife went out for a picnic in a buggy.
His wife Marie had been depressed since the death of their son Willy. Lincoln tried to overcome this sadness by talking to her lovingly.
She said we should be happier in the future because our lives have been so miserable because of the war and William's death.
That evening, Lincoln and Mary went to see a play at Washington's famous Ford's Theater. A box was reserved for both of them in the theater with a military flag draped over it.
Then Lincoln and Mary's carriage stopped in front of the theater. He was accompanied in Baghi by Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancee.
Both couples were escorted to the presidential box. As Lincoln entered the box. Everyone in the hall below stood respectfully.
The orchestra on stage gave a hail to two chiefs. Ya started playing the music of Salam ho to the chief.
Lincoln smiled and nodded his thanks for the honor and then sat down in a comfortable chair.
Mary sat next to him while on their right sat Major Rathbourn and his fiancee.
As soon as Lincoln sat down, the performance of the play began on the stage. It was a comedy drama called 'Our American Cousin' and famous actress Lara Kane was playing the lead role.
Lincoln laughed heartily at the comic dialogues of the play. The four people sitting in the box had their backs towards the door.
The door was not locked and John Parker, an American police officer, was guarding outside.
But Parker, tempted to watch the play, abandoned his duty and went into the hall.
Seeing the field empty, an assassin approached the door with a pistol and a knife. He had decided that today it would either be him or Abraham Lincoln.
Because heIn this view, Lincoln was a tyrannical dictator who robbed the southern states of their independence.
Meanwhile, the performance of the play was going on in the theater, music was playing. People were laughing at a comic act when the door of Lincoln's box opened.
A killer came rushing in with a gun in hand. He aimed the pistol at the back of Lincoln's head and fired.
Lincoln fell forward in his chair with a gasp and passed out.
Marie hurriedly took hold of him and started screaming. Major Henry turned his head and saw the killer with a pistol in one hand and smoke coming out of his navel and a knife in the other.
Major Henry jumped up and attacked the assassin, but the assassin jumped twelve feet below the stage from the box, wounding him with a knife.
On the stage he gave a loud shout. Which meant that this is what happens to the oppressors.
Although there were hundreds of people in the hall, no one tried to stop him.
Because the murderer was the famous stage actor John Wilkes Booth, and people immediately mistook his actions for a scene from a play.
Before people knew the truth, John Booth went out of the stage door where a horse was already ready and on that horse he escaped.
Somewhere after his escape, people realized the real situation and then there was a stampede in the theater.
People were screaming and trying to get out. Two doctors rush into Lincoln's box.
Lincoln was unconscious. The bullet entered his skull above his left ear and came to rest behind his right eye, ripping through his brain.
Both were trying to save Dr. Lincoln's life. Soon six soldiers entered the president's box, picked up the wounded president and carried him across the street to a boarding house across the street from the theater and laid him on a bed.
But the bed was short and Lincoln was tall. So he was laid diagonally on the bed.
Five doctors were now trying to save his life, but it seemed impossible for Lincoln to regain consciousness.
The doctors thought that he would not survive, so those closest to him were gathered around him to make his last moments as peaceful as possible.
His son Robert Lincoln had also reached the injured father's head. Marie had lost consciousness and was screaming, "Somebody get my son Ted. Lincoln loves him so much. He would talk to him and he would wake up."
Ted was watching a play at another theater that night when the soldiers approached him and told him about his father, and he screamed.
He said they have killed my father. They have killed my father.
But instead of taking Ted to Lincoln, the soldiers took him to the White House.
While all this was happening, there was an uproar in the city. After the attack on Lincoln, there was also a failed assassination attempt on Secretary of State William C. Word.
Rumors were rife in the city that rebel groups were about to capture the capital. So Washington was taken over by the army and the streets were patrolled by cavalry.
On April 15, 1865, at 7:22 in the morning, fifty-six-year-old Lincoln breathed his last. A white blanket was placed over Lincoln.
On this occasion, US Secretary of War Edwin Stanton said that this man has become a part of history.
On April 19, his funeral marched from the White House to Capitol Hill, with black soldiers marching to the faint beat of drums.
Church bells were ringing all over the city. Lincoln is said to have said in his youth that he did not have much faith in religion.
After becoming a politician, he used to use God's name in speeches, even quoting Bible phrases.
But he never said he was a Christian. He even said that since I am not religious, it is like a tax on my reputation, which means it reduces my popularity among my voters.
According to historians, Lincoln tolerated the lack of popularity among the electorate but never tried to present himself as a religious man.
Because of these words of Lincoln, there is a debate to this day whether Lincoln believed in religion or not.
On April 21, Lincoln's casket was placed on a special funeral train and left for his home state of Illinois, sixteen hundred and four miles away.
Along with Lincoln's casket, another casket was placed on the train. It contained the remains of Lincoln's son William, who died during the American Civil War.
Now father and son were going to be buried in the same place. Lincoln's casket train passed through seven states and one hundred and eighty cities.
The train stopped at all major cities en route. Where a large number of people would pay their last respects to their beloved president.
When the train entered Illinois on the night of May 2, thousands of people gathered on both sides of the track and large bonfires were lit to pay their respects to Lincoln.
At nine o'clock in the morning the train arrived in Springfield, Lincoln.
The station and its surrounding area was quite crowded with people. People were also standing on the roofs of nearby houses. As the train stopped, Lincoln was given a cannon salute.
Mourning tunes and the bells of all the churches were also rung. Lincoln's body was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield.
And yes, John Booth, the famous actor who assassinated Lincoln, was also killed two weeks later. He was tracked down by security forces and cornered in a cabin at a farmhouse near Virginia.
The cabin was first set on fire and then one of the officers shot him.
Where once there was a cabin nowA memorial has been placed here as the cabin no longer exists.
But Lincoln did not come to China even in his grave. His body was exhumed seventeen times, sometimes for fear of theft and sometimes due to the repair of the tomb.
Lincoln's casket was almost stolen once. As it turned out, the memorial that was originally built for Lincoln was much easier to get into. Lincoln's casket was placed in this vault and locked from the outside.
Seeing this unprotected tomb, a gang of counterfeiters in the state of Illinois planned to steal Lincoln's casket.
They decided to steal Lincoln's casket and collect a $200,000 ransom from the US government and release their gang leader who was in jail.
He chose the day of November 7, 1876 for this incident.
Because the presidential election was being held in America that day and the gangsters believed that people would be waiting for the election results at night and the cemetery would be empty.
So on the night of November 7, when the whole of America was listening to the election results, a monument to a president was being torn down in Springfield.
The gangsters broke the lock of Lincoln's tomb, opened the gate and began to take Lincoln's coffin out of the marble box.
But they didn't know that one of their colleagues was an undercover police officer who had hidden seven plainclothes policemen in the cemetery.
At his signal, the seven policemen fell upon the gangsters. The gangsters barely escaped with their lives but were caught after some time and were also punished.
Even after that, Lincoln's body and its safety remained a problem, many times it was buried and then exhumed for one reason or another.
Finally, this is his final resting place which you see was built for the last time on September 26, 1901.
But by then it was already known that Lincoln's body had disappeared from the coffin. So after opening the casket, twenty-three people looked inside it and confirmed that this body was that of Abraham Lincoln.
The casket was then closed again. Then, according to the instructions of his son Robert Lincoln, the coffin was sealed in a large cage and buried twenty feet below.
Two tons of concrete was also poured on it. It has not been reopened since then.
Abraham Lincoln's three sons and his wife are buried here, in addition to one son, Robert Lincoln.
Over 14,000 books have been written on Lincoln's life, countless theses, research papers, and hundreds of movies and plays.
His memorials are scattered across the United States. New Salem, the town where he began his career, has been rebuilt.
Monuments that had been destroyed were rebuilt in the same style and preserved for future generations.
Despite all this, there is not a single person living in the world today from the descendants of Lincoln. Because the line of the family could not continue after the children of Robert Lincoln and his daughters.
Friends, how did you like the story of this most important chapter in American history and the life story of its most important character?
Let us know in the comments what kind of leader you think Lincoln was and what we can learn from this chapter of history.
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