Abraham Lincoln And Edward Everett On The Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln and Edward Everett both gave a speech after the bloody battle at Gettysburg. Edward was first to speak and gave a two hour speech but Lincoln’s was just over two minutes.

The speech stole the show, it was on november 19th, 1863. Lincoln’s speech was 273 words long. Way shorter than Edward Everett’s two hour speech that took about the whole time.

The purpose of this speech was for the dedication of soldiers who fought in the battle of Gettysburg and ended up dying in this war, fighting for their country and what they believe is right. In the speech they talked about human equality, and people should be created equal and not to be bought or sold.

Gettysburg was a three day battle, and four months later, the speech was given by Everett and

Before Ulysses S Grant, Lincoln had trouble finding good generals for the war. He went through seven generals before getting Grant, and Grant was the general for the rest of the war.

He was furious when his troops and generals lost a battle because they had more troops than the south. `On January 1st, 1863, president Lincoln freed all slaves in the south so that southerners could not own them or order them around but they still did that. They did that to all slave states except the border states to keep them happy so they don’t secede, especially maryland because our capital is in Maryland and if it were in the south that would be a disaster. He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation on september 22nd. In the war, Lincoln offered a 100 dollar bonus if you join the war and stay there for two or more years. Some people signed up for two years but wanted to quit after one year. He wanted

75,000 volunteers for the army. He didn’t agree that you can secede from the United States, because it didn’t say you could in the constitution that you could secede. The south’s argument was that if they join