The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

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Index 244 Trostle, Edward, 138 Truman, Harry S., 149, 151 Tuskegee Institute, 108 Twain, Mark, 116 Tyler, John, 119 Tyler, Julia, 119 Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 119, 121–22, 147 Tyler, Nathaniel, 56 Uncle Sam, 126 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 61 Union, 23, 24, 109, 109, 120, 180 Union War, The (Gallagher), 22 United Confederate Veterans, 83 United Daughters of the Confederacy, 79 United States Information Agency, 151–56, 162–63, 201 Usher, John P., 11, 13 Vagnozzi, Edigio, 154 Vannorsdall, John W., 179 Vatican, 153 Vietnam, 154–56, 158 Villeda Morales, Ramón, 160 Virginian (Lynchburg), 57 Volk, Leonard, 86 Von Eschen, Penny, 149 Voting Rights Act of 1965, 150, 195 Wagner, A. E., 91–92 Walker, Jerry, 13 Walker, William, 159 Wallace, George, 166 War bonds, 123–25, 134 War for the Union (Nevins), 180 War of 1898, 107, 112, 116, 128 Warren, Louis, 3, 121 Warren, Robert Penn, 132 Washington, George, 10, 24, 27, 80, 121, 132 Webster, Daniel, 28, 40, 117 Weeks, Jim, 103 Weems, Parson, 27 Wellington, Duke of, 65 Wert, J. Howard, 14 Western Maryland Railway, 170 Whig Party, 10, 29 White, George H., 72, 73 Whitman, Walt, 37 Wilder, Howard, 188, 189 Wiley, Bell, 168, 170 Wilkie, Wendell, 133 Wilkins, Roy, 175, 187 Williams, George W., 103, 175 Williams, Henry, 133 Williams, Madaline, 166 Williams, Manning, 152 Wills, David, 6–9, 12–14, 18, 26, 27, 30, 48, 86, 91, 95, 97 Wills, Gary, 2, 3, 22–23, 27, 41, 142, 200 Wilmington Daily Journal, 58 Wilson, Douglas, 24 Wilson, Edmund, 153 Wilson, Woodrow, 29, 72, 84, 85, 118, 123, 124, 136 Windsor, Duke and Duchess of, 141 Wirth, Fremont, 188 Wise, Charlotte Everett, 13–14 Wood, Fernando, 35 Woollcott, Alexander, 139, 193 Words for Battle, 140 World War I, 88, 90, 113–29 World War II, 131–47, 150–51 World’s Fair (1964), 191 Yarborough, Ralph, 152, 220n14 York, Archbishop of, 117 Yugoff, Anton, 143 Yu-Tang D. Lew, 198 Jared Peatman is a leadership-development trainer, using historic metaphors ranging from the Alamo to Gettysburg to the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 2009, he was named the Organization of American Historians and Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Doctoral Fellow, and in 2012, he received the Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize for the best work on Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War. He is an alumnus of Gettysburg College (BA), Virginia Tech (MA), and Texas A&M University (PhD). Peatman The Long Shadow of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address When Abraham Lincoln addressed the crowd at the new national cemetery in Gettysburg ,Pennsylvania,on November 19,1863,he intended his speech to be his most eloquent statement on the inextricable link between equality and democracy. However, unwilling to commit to equality at that time, the nation stood ill-prepared to accept the full message of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In the ensuing century, groups wishing to advance a particular position borrowed Lincoln’s words for their own ends, highlighting the specific parts of the speech that echoed their stance while ignoring the rest. Only as the nation slowly moved toward equality did those invoking Lincoln’s speech come closer to recovering his true purpose. In this incisive work, Jared Peatman seeks to understand not only Lincoln ’s intentions at Gettysburg but also how his words were received, invoked, and interpreted over time, providing an insightful analysis of one of America’s most legendary orations. After reviewing the events leading up to November 19,1863,Peatman examines immediate responses to the ceremony in New York, Gettysburg itself,Confederate Richmond,and London,showing how parochial concerns and political affiliations shaped initial coverage of the day and led to the censoring of Lincoln’s words in some locales. He then traces how, over time,proponents of certain ideals invoked the particular parts of the address that suited their message, from reunification early in the twentieth century to American democracy and patriotism during the world wars and, finally, to Lincoln’s full intended message of equality during the Civil War centennial commemorations and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Peatman also explores foreign invocations of the Gettysburg Address and its influence on both the Chinese constitution of 1912 and the current French constitution.An epilogue highlights recent and even current applications of the Gettysburg Address and hints at ways the speech might be used in the future. By tracing the evolution of Lincoln’s brief words at a cemetery dedication into a revered document essential to American national iden­ tity...