How Well Do You Know The Gettysburg Address?

Lauren Kirkbride|History|7 Jul 2019

A month before Lincoln’s address, how did Gettysburg Battlefield change?

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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Memorial in the National Cemetery in Gettysburg National Military Park
Retry Correct Incorrect Around October 17th, an attorney named David Wills bought 17 acres of pasture near the battlefield to convert into a cemetery for the fallen soldiers. Wills’ workers, charged by Pennsylvania’s governor, Andrew Curtin, exhumed the 7,500 located bodies and reburied them in this cemetery.
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A month before Lincoln’s address, how did Gettysburg Battlefield change?

  • All the plants and trees were replaced so that the battlefield would be unrecognizable
  • Former Union soldiers wrote Lincoln’s address based on the battlefield
  • Fallen Union soldiers were dug up and reburied in the National Cemetery at Gettysburg
  • Workers built a stage on top of Gettysburg Battlefield
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