The Gettysburg Address

Famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the site of the American Civil War's greatest battle.

Beginning with "Four score and seven years ago...", Lincoln delivered the address in less than two minutes to the approximately 15,000 people who attended the ceremony.

There are the five known surviving manuscripts of the address, each with small variations in punctuation and text, but only one contains Lincoln's signature--known as the Bliss Draft, named after Colonel A...