![]() ![]() Lincoln’s speech did not garner much attention during his lifetime in many ways, it was forgotten and lost to popular memory until the U.S. The following day, Everett wrote to Lincoln: “I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.” In about 260 words, beginning with the famous phrase, “Four score and seven years ago,” Lincoln honored the Union dead and reminded the listeners of the purpose of the soldier’s sacrifice: equality, freedom, and national unity. ![]() Everett spoke for two hours, from memory, before Lincoln took the podium. Invited to give a “few appropriate remarks,” Lincoln was not the featured speaker at the dedication Edward Everett, a famous orator and former politician and educator, was. The Gettysburg Address is the speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier’s National Cemetery, for Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. ![]()
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