The Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, or the "Gettysburg Address," is Lincoln's most famous speech.  He delivered the address on November 19, 1863, just four and one half months after the massive battle at the small Pennsylvania town.

    Because it is perhaps Lincoln's most famous work and because it came to symbolize the American Civil War, it has often been reproduced in facsimile editions.

    Only the following five copies of the Gettysburg Address are now extant:

Nicolay Draft

   Images courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Hay Draft

    Images courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Bancroft Copy

    Images courtesy of Cornell University.

Everett Copy

   Images courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

Bliss Copy

Images from Long Remembered: Facsimiles of the Five Versions of the Gettysburg Address in the Handwriting of Abraham Lincoln (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1963).

The Bliss Copy has been the source for most facsimile reproductions of the Gettysburg Address, because Lincoln provided a title and signed and dated this copy.  The following images are reproductions of the Bliss Copy of the Gettysburg Address, rearranged from three pages to two:

Images courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. 

For more information on reproductions, see the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency's page on Facsimile Documents.