![]() ![]() ![]() The photographer who took the original glass-plate negative is uncertain. Others included in the crowd are Lincoln’s private secretaries, John Hay and John Nicolay, orator Edward Everett, and Francis Pierpont, governor of the Restored government of Virginia, who is the bearded figure visible on the far right of the top row. The Library of Congress identifies the tall man in top hat as Ward Hill Lamon, a friend and a self-appointed bodyguard of the president. On that afternoon-just four and a half months after the bloody Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863)-Lincoln delivered his now famous speech, the Gettysburg Address, at the dedication ceremony of the Soldiers' National Cemetery. A detail of a photographic print shows a hatless President Abraham Lincoln (at top center, just above the blurred crowd, with his head bowed, to the left of a very tall man with a top hat and sash) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863. ![]()
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