In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous speech, separating fact from fiction along the way. Lincoln's greater journey to Gettysburg is chronicled, from his early anti-slavery sentiments as a poor farmer's son to his rousing orations as one of America's greatest leaders.
as John P. Jones (voice)
as Ward Hill Lamon (voice)
as Charles Sumner (voice)
as Andrew Curtin (voice)
as Reader
as John G. Nicolay (voice)
as Leonard Swett (voice)
as Frederick Douglass (voice)
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
as Theodore Parker (voice)
as John C. Calhoun (voice)
as Ralph Waldo Emerson (voice)
as Noah Brooks (voice)
as Edward Everett (voice)
as Emily Souder (voice)
as William Saunders (voice)
as William Herndon (voice)
as Daniel Skelly (voice)
as Senator (NH)
as Self
as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
as Daniel Webster (voice)
as Albertus McCreery (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self