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On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.The speech was made at the formal dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of ...
Cintas also collected manuscripts and his acquisitions included the only first edition of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, and the fifth and final manuscript of Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address", once owned by the family of Col. Alexander Bliss, and known as the "Bliss copy". Cintas’ purchase of the manuscript, for $54,000, in 1949, set ...
The subject is Lincoln's words. Contains excerpts from his 1862 annual address to Congress, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and the Gettysburg Address. The narrator is usually a distinguished person the orchestra wishes to honor; among them have been Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Barack Obama. Kurt Weill set "O Captain! My Captain!"
The Consecration of the Soldiers' National Cemetery [3] [4] was the ceremony at which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. In addition to the 15,000 spectators, attendees included six state governors: Andrew Gregg Curtin of Pennsylvania, Augustus Bradford of Maryland, Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, Horatio Seymour of New York, Joel Parker of New ...
The book, which became a best-seller during the 1990s, [1] argued that Lincoln's 272-word address, which was delivered during the dedication of the new national cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, was so powerful that it reshaped the United States by altering Americans' view of both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S ...
The Gettysburg Rostrum is a brick speaker's stand located at Gettysburg National Cemetery. It was Identified in 1908 as the location of the Gettysburg Address . [ 1 ] However, it is now believed the address was given elsewhere. [ 2 ]