Research Catalog

Title

The Gettysburg Soldiers' Cemetery and Lincoln's address : aspects and angles / by Frank L. Klement ; introduction by Steven K. Rogstad.

Author

Klement, Frank L.

Publication

Shippensburg, PA, USA : White Mane Pub. Co., ©1993.

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Details

Description

xv, 276 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.) > Anniversaries, etc
• Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.)
• Gettysburg address (Lincoln, Abraham)
• Consecration of cemeteries > Pennsylvania > Gettysburg
• Cimetières > Consécration > Pennsylvanie > Gettysburg
• Anniversaries
• Consecration of cemeteries
• Pennsylvania > Gettysburg

Genre/Form

• Literature
• Literature.
• Littérature.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Steven K. Rogstad -- pt. 1. Three Perspectives. I. 'These Honored Dead': David Wills and the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg. II. Ward H. Lamon and the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg. III. Benjamin B. French, the Lincolns, and the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg -- pt. 2. Different Topics. IV. Ohio and the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg. V. Lincoln's First Gettysburg Address: A Little Known Impromptu Speech Perhaps Best Forgotten -- pt. 3. The Gettysburg Address. VI. Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, and Two Myths. VII. The Ten Who Sat in the Front Row on the Platform During the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg. VIII. Seven Who Witnessed Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
• IX. A Milwaukeean Witnesses Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: W. Yates Selleck and the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg -- pt. 4. Postscript. X. The Six Copies of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's Own Hand. XI. The Dispute Over the Site of the Platform. XII. The Music at Gettysburg -- App. A. Gettysburg (a newspaperman's description) -- App. B. Documents relating to the procession and program -- App. C. Rev. Thomas H. Stockton's "Invocation" -- App. D. Edward Everett's oration, "The Battles of Gettysburg" -- App. E. President Lincoln's "Dedicatory Address" (newsman Joseph L. Gilbert's version) -- App. F. Rev. Henry L. Baugher's "Benediction."

ISBN

• 0942597613
• 9780942597615

LCCN

93042381

OCLC

• ocm29359720
• 29359720
• SCSB-2003971

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library