The brief speech—just 272 words arranged into ten sentences—was part of a dedication ceremony of a new national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, honoring the thousands of Union soldiers ...

LINCOLN'S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG SPEECH; It Was Almost Ignored by the Newspapers in Their Reports of the Occasion. HE FEARED HE HAD FAILED Spoke Extemporaneously from Notes Scribbled on the Way to ...

On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most memorable speeches in American history.

Abraham Lincoln’s Legendary Gettysburg Address Promised ‘Government of the People, by the People, for the People’ The president’s humble speech, delivered on this day in 1863, was filled ...