The Gettysburg Address of Edward Everett (Illustrated)

When the crowd came to Gettysburg in November 1863 to commemorate the battle fought there 4 months earlier, they came to hear a series of speeches about the Civil War and the events of that battle. And although President Lincoln himself was coming to deliver remarks, he was not in fact the keynote speaker.

Instead, the man chosen to give the keynote speech was Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865), a politician and educator from Massachusetts. Everett served as both a U.S. Repr...