Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers' National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

New York Times–Bestselling Author:The story of the battle's aftermath—the burial of the dead, and Lincoln's appearance to make "a few appropriate remarks."

Almost 8,000 dead dotted the fields of Gettysburg after the guns went silent. The Confederate dead were hastily buried, but what of the Union dead? Several men hatched the idea of a new cemetery to bury and honor the Union soldiers just south of town. Their task was difficult to say the least.

After the State of Pennsylvania purchas...