About this book

The most famous speech in American history. President Lincoln gave this very brief one-page address at the dedication of the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, PA on November 19, 1863, four months after the battle. This publication contains the final speech and a transcription of one of the several known early drafts.

Publication Details

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Published
1998
Pages
32
ISBN
9780395883976

About Unknown Author

Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. - [*Wikipedia*][1] The Library of Congress has shared [lots of photographs of Abraham Lincoln][2] in the Flickr Commons. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln [2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/abrahamlincoln/

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