The Gettysburg Address

TitleThe Gettysburg Address
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication1953
AuthorsLincoln, Abraham
EditorBalser, Roy P., Marion Dolores Pratt, and Lloyd A. Dunlap
Corporate AuthorsThe Abraham Lincoln Association
Book TitleThe Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
Volume7
Number of Volumes11
Pagination17-23
PublisherRutgers University Press
CityNew Brunswick, NJ
Abstract

The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is one of the best-known speeches in American history. The speech is reproduced in this volume alongside all of its original drafts.

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