150 years ago, on a train ride from Washington, President Lincoln put the finishing touches on his speech he was to give at the Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. This, just four and a half months after the Union victory on the battlefields of Gettysburg. These "few appropriate remarks" followed a two hour oration by Edward Everett. Everett would write to the President that, "I should be glad that 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."
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