Lincoln, Abraham:

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[THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, PRINTED ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE] NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE...FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1863. The complete issue of the New-York Tribune printing the Gettysburg Address on the morning of November 20, 1863, the first possible date of the speech's printing. The previous day, Lincoln delivered his great address at the dedication of a cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield four months after the bloody and pivotal battle that turned the tide of the Civil War in favor of the Union. Lincoln's speech was preceded by an address from Edward Everett, the most famous orator of his day. Everett's speech took between ninety minutes and two hours to deliver and today is largely forgotten. Lincoln's speech, delivered in only a few minutes, stands as a supreme distillation of American values and of the sacrifices necessary for the survival of liberty and freedom.Much controversy surrounds the circumstances and content of the address as it was actually delivered at Gettysburg. The words spoken in the speech differ in the versions appearing in newspapers and the text which appeared in Washington several days later (published as The Gettysburg Solemnities and known in only four copies) which is now taken as the closest version to Lincoln's final intent because of its correspondence to the known manuscript versions. Interestingly, and according to Carbonell, the text of the first appearance of the speech in book form, published a few days later as An Oration Delivered on the Batt

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