155 years ago, as I write, after an overnight stay at the home of a local supporter, President Abraham Lincoln readied himself for the short carriage ride to the Gettysburg Battlefield. Lincoln had not been scheduled to speak that day, only to bear witness to an oration by the well-known expositor, Edward Everette. As Lincoln left the White House the day before, wife Mary urged him not to go as Tad, their youngest, lay feverish in the bed. But Lincoln understood the importance of the trip to the site where four months prior, after the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, Union forces had finally been able to stop the Confederate General Robert E.
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155 Years Ago, Remembered
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155 years ago, as I write, after an overnight stay at the home of a local supporter, President Abraham Lincoln readied himself for the short carriage ride to the Gettysburg Battlefield. Lincoln had not been scheduled to speak that day, only to bear witness to an oration by the well-known expositor, Edward Everette. As Lincoln left the White House the day before, wife Mary urged him not to go as Tad, their youngest, lay feverish in the bed. But Lincoln understood the importance of the trip to the site where four months prior, after the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, Union forces had finally been able to stop the Confederate General Robert E.