Sitting in the movie theatre watching Lincoln, I was determined to pay close attention to the scene depicting the roll call vote on the proposed 13th Amendment, having earlier received an email from a bar colleague who was of the mind that it may have inaccurately portrayed the vote of the Connecticut delegation. I saw the film with other lawyers, one of whom grabbed a piece of paper and a pen when that scene came, and scratched down the information.
Sure enough, the quickest of Internet searches revealed the error. The film’s writers had miscast our state’s congressmen as voting against the slavery-banning amendment. There were two reasons to conclude this departure from historical truth was intentional. First, in another historical inaccuracy, the film has Connecticut at the beginning of the roll call; our state’s response was thus an especially dramatic and attention-getting scene.
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