Who wrote Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is regarded as one of the most powerful and poignant speeches in American history. ... read more

(JALA) Wills House. Related Books. Boritt, Gabor. The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows. Simon & Schuster, 2006. Graham, Kent. November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg. read more

Nearby, Nov. 19, 1863, in dedicating the National Cemetery, Abraham Lincoln gave the address which he had written in Washington and revised after his arrival at Gettysburg the evening of November 18. read more

He wrote it himself, but the famous story about the writing of it--about him jotting it down on the back of an envelope on the train to Pennsylvania--is probably false. read more