November 19, 2006
Abraham Lincoln Delivers Gettysburg Address
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The Gettysburg Address, one of the most quoted speeches in US history, was delivered by President Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and half months after the famous battle fought there. Lincoln's three-minute address redefined the American Civil War as not merely a struggle for the Union, but also as "a new birth of freedom" for the US and its people. Which one of the 5 known manuscript copies has been called "the most inexplicable"?
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