146 Years Ago Today...

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By amazing coincidence, I am plowing through Shelby Foote's 3-volume series on the Civil War and just got to the Gettysburg Address two days ago.

The speaker before Lincoln -- Edward Everett of Massachusetts-- went on for 2 hours solid. Lincoln, contrary to what I had always thought, was not really the keynote speaker at Gettysburgh at all. Foote describes how Lincoln gave his whole speech before the cameraman could even get set up for a photo.