and the David Wills House, where Abraham Lincoln put the final touches on the Gettysburg Address. Previous travelers say the tour blends the right amount of history and spookiness. If a one-hour ...

The four houses are: Abraham Brian House ... attorney David Wills was the center of the immense clean-up process after the Battle of Gettysburg and where President Lincoln put the finishing ...

Today in 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg address ... the leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives, Thaddeus Stevens, had McPherson, a former law clerk ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Honoring a request to offer a few ...

Upon a wooden platform, set in a small, war-torn Pennsylvania town, President Abraham Lincoln stood ... On Nov. 19, 1863, Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at a ceremony to dedicate a ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln ... of modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself. His Gettysburg Address (1863) and ...

Born in Dublin, the Irish soldier who heard President Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, died in New Jersey in 1938. In April 1938, the New York Times and ...

Noteworthy items include a Confederate flag used at the First Battle of Bull Run, former President Abraham ... like the Shriver House Museum, the Jennie Wade House and the Gettysburg Diorama ...

As Lincoln had remarked, “A house divided ... In his 1863 Gettysburg Address, he argued that the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major Acts In practical ...

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history -- was the battle of Gettysburg ... humiliated Abraham Lincoln, and resulted in a negotiated end to ...