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themursr
themursr

SO WHAT

gegirl
gegirl

There are five existing versions that President Lincoln wrote by hand. Lincoln's speach was only two minutes long. It is one of the great American speeches of all time. The speech was given at Gettysburg November 19, 1863 , at a dedication for a national cemetery , for the soldiers who died during the Confederate's attempt to defeat the Union Army. This speech was given four months after the war.

kwright
kwright

This documenti s so interesting because there is no way it could have been written on the way to Gettysburg, Theory has it that Lincoln went through several drafts, as evidenced by the minimal changes found on this particular final version.

leesjensen
leesjensen

This address neither started nor ended the war. It was given during the war several months after the battle at the dedication of cemetery located at the battle site.

mbking21
mbking21

was this what started the war or what ended it?

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Gettysburg Address
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1863
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Abraham Lincoln, Draft of the Gettysburg Address: Nicolay Copy, November 1863; Series 3, General Correspondence, 1837-1897; The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (Washington, D. C.: American Memory Project, [2000-02]), http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.html.
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