Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the Battle of Gettysburg Through Primary Sources by Carin T. Ford

Author:Carin T. Ford [Ford, Carin T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4645-1097-7
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2013-03-11T04:00:00+00:00

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PRIMARY SOURCE

Image Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

A surgeon at a field hospital in Gettysburg prepares to amputate a limb from a wounded soldier after the battle.

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Wills then asked Edward Everett to give a speech. Everett was an important man. In the past, he had been the governor of Massachusetts, a U.S. senator, and the president of Harvard University. About five weeks later, Wills also wrote to President Lincoln, asking if he would come and make “a few … remarks.”4

The ceremony was seventeen days away. This did not give Lincoln much time to write a speech. He made some notes on a piece of paper. There were only eight sentences. When he penciled in a ninth sentence, he needed another piece of paper.

Lincoln made the six-hour trip to Gettysburg on November 18. Traveling with him were several government workers, some army and navy officers, and his friend Ward Lamon.

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