The Gettysburg Address 162 Years Later
272 words, 10 sentences, 2 minutes in length. That’s all it took for President Abraham Lincoln to deliver one of the most impactful speeches in U.S. History: The Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 A few months earlier, from July 1–3, 1863, Union and Confederate armies fought in the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. It was one of the bloodiest battles of the war, with tens of thousands killed, wounded, or missing. A new Soldiers’ …