Edward Everett was an American politician, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, as a Whig, served as U.S. representative, U.S. senator, the 15th governor of Ma
Everett in the 1860s
Birthplace of Everett in Dorchester, Massachusetts. ca.1898 photo
Everett's friend George Ticknor (1867 engraving)
Everett's student Ralph Waldo Emerson, daguerreotype by unknown photographer
The Gettysburg Address is a dedication speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, following the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The speech has come to be viewed
Edward Everett
…Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863, where he spoke for over two hours—immediately before President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous two-minute Gettysburg Address. Everett was educated at Harvard, and briefly ministered at Boston's Brattle Street Church before taking a teaching job at Harvard. The position included…
One of only two confirmed photos of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg (seated in center facing camera), taken about noon on November 19, 1863; some three hours later, Lincoln delivered the famed address. To Lincoln's right is Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln's bodyguard.
The written invitation sent by David Wills, the primary organizer of the ceremonial dedication of Soldiers' National Cemetery, inviting Lincoln to speak at the event
A Harvest of Death, a photo taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan immediately following the Battle of Gettysburg, showing Union army soldiers then laying dead on the Gettysburg battlefield
Edward Everett, who delivered the day's primary speech, a two-hour oration prior to Lincoln's much briefer dedication