When was gettysburg address written

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

The speech was interrupted by applause, but how much applause and when it happened is still a subject of debate. Another critic, a Harrisburg newspaper, had harsher comments and just apologized for them in Toggle navigation. Here's a review of seven myths and mysteries about the Address.

Lincoln wrote the speech on the back of an envelope This is perhaps the biggest myth about the Gettysburg Address. Where exactly did Lincoln give the speech? How many known photographs are there of Lincoln giving the speech? Did everyone love the speech after Lincoln gave it? Prints and Photographs Division. Brown copy of the Gettysburg address. Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg.

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