Born in Dublin, the Irish soldier who heard President Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, died in New Jersey in 1938. In April 1938, the New York Times and ...
Delivered on the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, the Gettysburg Address is known by some as the greatest speech in the world – and one of Abraham Lincoln's defining moments.
Upon a wooden platform, set in a small, war-torn Pennsylvania town, President Abraham Lincoln stood before a crowd of about 15,000 people and summed up the stakes of the American Civil War in a tidy ...
SPRINGFIELD — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will display an original edition of the Gettysburg Address starting on Nov. 15. The exhibit will be available through Nov.
"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose 1990 The Civil War won 40 major television and film honors.