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The Square at Getysburg, Pa. Showing the "Wills House," (arrow indicates room in which 29 President Lincoln wrote his immortal "Gettysburg Address"), Masonic Temple (A), Y. W. C. A., (B) and sections of York and Baltimore Streets.Extract from book, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address" by Oroton H. Carmichael. "About nine O'clock Mr. Micolay, Secretary to the President, went to the room in the Wills House occupied by Lincoln and found him at work upon the address which he was to deliver. He continued to write, so for as the many interruptions gave him opportunity, up to the time it was necessary for him to take his place in the procession." |
