Gettysburg Address

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Gettysburg Address (1863)
by Abraham Lincoln

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The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln's most famous speech and one of the most quoted political speeches in United States history, was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg.

There are several sources of the speech: Five known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address are each named for the associated person who received it from Lincoln below. All versions differ in their wording, punctuation, and structure.

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Versions of Gettysburg Address include:

Gettysburg Address (1863), Nicolay draft
Gettysburg Address (1863), Hay draft
Gettysburg Address (1864), Everett copy
Gettysburg Address (1864), Bancroft copy
Gettysburg Address (1864), Bliss copy
Gettysburg Address (1922), inscribed on the southern interior wall at the Lincoln Memorial

Works about the Gettysburg Address

Inauguration of the Gettysburg Cemetery (1863), report in the Daily Illinois State Journal

Works about the Gettysburg Address

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