"Rewriting the Gettysburg address. Outstanding. " Topic
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 Nashville  | 22 Feb 2014 8:29 a.m. PST |
link Abraham Lincoln did not give the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863 — at least, not the one engraved on the Lincoln Memorial, the one memorized by millions the world over. Lincoln actually wrote the words recognized today as the Gettysburg Address months after the cemetery dedication, during a full and complete revision of his speech that he finished in February 1864. Lincoln's revisions added about 14 percent more words to his original delivery text, the so-called Nicolay Draft, adding several key passages. But no addition was more important than the words "under God": Lincoln had spoken those words, and others that were not in the delivery manuscript, in the inspiration of the moment, when he stood on the speaker's platform and dedicated the nation to "a new birth of freedom." |
| Littlearmies | 23 Feb 2014 3:08 a.m. PST |
That's a fascinating piece. Thanks for sharing. |
| mandt2 | 23 Feb 2014 8:59 p.m. PST |
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completes a Confederate river ironclad.
