“Four Score and Seven Years Ago….” Lincoln’s Handwritten Gettysburg Address

Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

07/22/2026 09:00 AM EDT

For a document as iconic as the Gettysburg Address now is, many details about its creation and delivery have been lost to time or clouded by conflicting memories of witnesses. Civil War historian Michell Krowl of the Manuscript Division documents what we do and don't know about this historic moment in American history.

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