November 19, 1863

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-11-19'>Thursday, November 19, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='39.8167, -77.2167' teiForm='name'>Gettysburg,
  PA</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> According to
  Nicolay's account, after breakfast at Wills house, Lincoln retires to his room,
  where Nicolay joins him, and completes preparation of his speech. <bibl default='NO'>John G.
  Nicolay, "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address," <title>The Century Magazine</title>
  25:598.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> About 10 A.M. President, dressed in black, wearing
  white gauntlets and usual crepe around hat in memory of Willie, leaves Wills
  house to join procession. Receives round after round of "three hearty cheers,"
  and shakes many hands as crowd gathers. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 21 November
  1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Thousands welcome President in Gettysburg. Weather fine.
  Flags in Washington at half-mast in honor of dead in cemetery at Gettysburg. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 November 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gov. Curtin (Pa.), who
  arrived last evening with numerous important people on special train from
  Harrisburg, Pa., remarks to Lincoln about serenade given Gov. Seymour (N.Y.),
  and Lincoln replies: "He deserves it. No man has shown greater interest and
  promptness in his cooperation with us." <bibl default='NO'>Rice, 514.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President mounts "a magnificent chestnut charger." <bibl default='NO'>Monaghan,
  <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 341.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Rides in
  procession to cemetery. <bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and
  Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Procession delayed; starts to move about 11 A.M.
  <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1425.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Head of procession arrives at speaker's
  platform inside cemetery at 11:15 A.M. President receives military salute.
  President and members of cabinet, with group of military and civic dignitaries,
  occupy platform. "The President was received with marked respect and a perfect
  silence due to the solemnity of the occasion, every man among the immense
  gathering uncovering at his appearance." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 20
  November 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln shakes hands with Gov. Tod (Ohio), who
  introduces Gov.-elect John Brough (Ohio), and takes his place between chairs
  reserved for Sec. Seward and Edward Everett, orator to make principal address.
  At 11:40 A.M. Everett arrives, is introduced to President, and program music
  begins. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 21 November 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Once
  during Everett's two-hour oration Lincoln stirs in his chair. "He took out his
  steel-bowed spectacles, put them on his nose, took two pages of manuscript from
  his pocket, looked them over and put them back." <bibl default='NO'>Monaghan,
  <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 341.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> About 2
  P.M. Lincoln "in a fine, free way, with more grace than is his wont" delivers
  Gettysburg Address. He holds manuscript but does not appear to read from it. 
  <bibl default='NO'>John G. Nicolay, "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address," <title>The Century
  Magazine</title> 25:602; Dennett, <title corresp='books_Dennett'>Hay Diaries
  and Letters</title>, 121;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A40' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Address
  Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg</xref>, 19 November
  1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:22-23.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Pronounces his "r" plainly, does not speak like Southerner. <bibl default='NO'>Henry B.
  Rankin, <title>Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln</title>
  (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1924), 285.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> On platform, after
  speech, President remarks to Marshal Lamon: "Lamon, that speech won't scour! It
  is a flat failure and the people are disappointed." <bibl default='NO'>Lamon,
  <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 173.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> John
  R. Young, recording speech in shorthand for Philadelphia "Press," leans across
  aisle and asks President if that is all. Lincoln replies, "Yes, for the
  present." <bibl default='NO'>John R. Young, <title>Men and Memories: Personal
  Reminiscences</title>, 2 vols., edited by May D. Russell Young (New York: F. T.
  Neely, 1901), 1:69.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President decides to hear address by Lt.
  Gov.-elect Charles Anderson (Pa.) at 4:30 P.M. in Presbyterian Church. Meets
  "old John Burns, the soldier of 1812, and the only man in Gettysburg who
  volunteered to defend it." Burns accompanies him and Sec. Seward to hear
  Anderson speak. President's special train leaves Gettysburg about 7 P.M. and
  arrives in Washington at 1:10 A.M. on Friday. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 21
  November 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln returns from Gettysburg with a mild form
  of smallpox (varioloid) and remains under half quarantine in White House for
  nearly three weeks. <bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>,
  30 November 1863; Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>,
  Dec.</bibl> 
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