What newspapers printed about Lincoln's speech in November 1863, in their own words, plus the speech itself read aloud and the story of the cemetery it dedicated.
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Corrections and notes
- Camp Letterman, the army hospital near Gettysburg, closed on November 20, 1863. The video says its last patients left by January 1864. Patient totals are also disputed.
- About 3,300 Confederate remains were moved south in the early 1870s by Southern ladies' memorial associations. The video says veterans' groups.
- The printed program lists a dirge after Lincoln's speech, then the benediction. The video says another hymn.
- The Chicago Times and Springfield Republican quotes are shortened excerpts; both original sentences continue.
Sources
- Cornell University Library, Gettysburg exhibit: contemporary reactions
- PolitiFact, Was Lincoln's Gettysburg Address initially ridiculed?
- NPR, 150 years later, newspaper retracts Gettysburg Address diss
- National Park Service, Soldiers' National Cemetery
- National Park Service Historical Handbook 9, Lincoln and Gettysburg