Rewriting the Gettysburg Address (1 Viewer)

[jazzeum]

This article by the co-winner of the 2014 Lincoln Prize, Martin Johnson, shows how the delivered address, the so-called Nicolay Draft, differed from the version of the Address that we all know today.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/disunion/

 

[Napoleon1er]

Thanks! Interesting article! For those interested in reading the referenced drafts, here is a link:
http://www.virtualgettysburg.com/exhibit/lincoln/feature.html