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Title: Gettysburg and Lincoln;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Burrage, Henry S. (Henry Sweetser), 1837-1926
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.) Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sure; and the last line isin the following form: It is rather for us theliving to stand here, the last three words being,like the rest, in ink. From the fact that this sen-tence is incomplete, we may infer that at the timeof writing it in Washington the remainder of thesentence was also written in ink on another pieceof paper. But when, at Gettysburg on the morn-ing of the ceremonies, Mr. Lincoln finished his man-uscript, he used a lead pencil, with which hecrossed out the last three words of the first page,and wrote above them in pencil we here be ded-ica- at which point he took up a new half sheetof paper—^not white letter paper as before, but abluish-gray foolscap of large size with wide lines,habitually used by him for long or formal doc-uments,—and on this he wrote, all in pencil, theremainder of the word, and of the first draft of the address, comprising a total of nine lines anda half. 2 ^ Century Magazine, vol, xxv, pp. 598, 599.2 Century Magazine, vol. xxv., pp. 601, 602.
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Lincoln Goes to Gettysburg 103 The part of the address on this second sheet isas follows: ted to the great task remaining before us—that, from these honored dead we take increaseddevotion to that cause for which they here gavethe last full measure of devotion—that we herehighly resolve these dead shall not have died invain; that the nation shall have a new birth offreedom, and that government of the people, by thepeople, for the people, shall not perish from theearth. Mr. Nicolay wrote his statement with referenceto Mr. Lincolns address thirty years after the con-secration of the cemetery at Gettysburg. Hegives his recollection of the finishing of the addressin these words: It was after the breakfast hour onthe morning of the 19th, that the writer, Mr. Lin-colns private secretary, went to the upper roomin the house of Mr. Wills which Mr. Lincoln occu-pied, to report for duty, and remained with thePresident while he finished writing the Gettysburgaddress, during the short leisure h

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