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LOC note: Photo is a reprint of a small detail of a photo showing the crowd gathered for the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Penn., where President Abraham Lincoln gave his now famous speech, the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln is visible facing the crowd, not wearing a hat, about an inch below the third flag from the left.
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The Bancroft copy of the Gettysburg Address was written out by Lincoln in February 1864, following the ceremonial dedication, at the request of George Bancroft, a former Secretary of the Navy and historian whose comprehensive ten-volume History of the United States later led him to be known as the "father of American History".
Read below for the full text of Lincoln's address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition ...
Antebellum events: 1835 Penn RR cut 1832 Lutheran Old Dorm 1812 Chambersburg Pike 1780 Gettysburg settled 1761 Gettys Tavern-----Color Key-----administration: 1933: NPS
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Uploading original from LOC over manipulated version: 18:59, 3 November 2008: 2,000 × 1,617 (569 KB) Crouching Tiger~commonswiki: The only known photograph of President Lincoln giving his Gettysburg speech on November 19. 1863, taken by photographer David Bachrach.
This designation was invented by government historian John B. Bachelder after the war when the monuments of the Gettysburg Battlefield were being erected. [3] Some historians have argued that the battle was the turning point of the war and that this was the place that represented the Confederacy's last major offensive operation in the Eastern ...