Edward Everett, perhaps the country's best know public speaker, had just sat down after delivering the main address on the program of the dedication of the new Soldiers' National Cemetery, a soaring speech of almost two hours. Then, following a hymn sung by a Baltimore choir, President Lincoln rose to give his "dedicatory remarks." His two minute, roughly 272-word address took some time to enter history but enter history it did. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
H. Orton Carmichael, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (New York: Abingdon Press, 1917), 67-71.
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