On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.

November 19, 1863 | Abraham Lincoln

[EveningStar]

"The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[dfwgator]

[Fester Chugabrew]

And by “research” I mean little more than clicking my mouse on other web sources out there and being arbitrarily selective as to their veracity.

[cynwoody]

And by “research” I mean little more than clicking my mouse on other web sources out there and being arbitrarily selective as to their veracity.

That's interesting. The first thought would be that the monument marks the spot where he gave the speech. But, on second thought, maybe not ...

Your coordinates are quite precise. A hundredth of a second of longitude at that latitude is about nine inches. Mr Lincoln wore size 13 shoes.

How did you discover the exact location?

[Fester Chugabrew]

I googled the subject and began going through the various results. I think it would be safe to say it is only an educated guess as to where Lincoln actually stood. I looked at the photo of him on the platform, and the trees, put it together like a puzzle.