President Lincoln's Gettysburg Adress
Four months after the Battle of Gettysburg was over, on November 19, 1863, at the Gettysburg Cemetary and Battleground, President Lincoln was asked to give a "few appropriate remarks." Lincoln decided to write the Gettysburg adress, the piece of writing accredited as one of his best speeches. Lincoln's speech recieved little accreditation at the time, but the speaker before Lincoln, Edward Everett, said this about Lincoln: “Permit me also to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity & appropriateness, at the consecration of the Cemetery. I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”