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Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg

The Consecration of the Soldiers' National Cemetery was the ceremony at which U.S. president Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. In addition to the 15,000 spectators, attendees included six state governors: Andrew Gregg Curtin of Pennsylvania, Augustus Bradford of Maryland, Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, Horatio Seymour of New York, Joel Parker of New Jersey, and David Tod of Ohio. Reporters present included Joseph Gilbert (Associated Press), Charles Hale (Boston Advertiser), John Russell Young (Philadelphia Press); and Cincinnati Commercial, New York Tribune, & The New York Times reporters.

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• ▸Frunzik Mkrtchyan
• ▸Geysir
• ▸Augusta Caroline Crofton

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