Gettysburg Address

[maharba]

Yes I read the posting on where else Lincoln may have been at the Gettysburg speech. And, also in checking recent Google
search ideas, the present thought is that Lincoln was about a quarter mile north of the (present) memorial, then. If I am not as clear as can be at times, I am trying to recapitulate what really took place and why. Several points are still not settled. In his orally delivered speech, did Lincoln say 'under God' or was that merely added later in written copies. It really seems that his speech was so short that folks there and then were a bit stunned it ended so quickly. My current thinking is that the Gettysburg Address of Lincoln was not 'interrupted several times by applause". But that, if the audience had understood just how brief it was going to be , they MIGHT have applauded. I tend to believe too that Lincoln was disappointed in the immediate (flat) reception of his Address. Though several modern historians say that that was a myth, and that
Lincoln instead was pleased with its immediate reception there on the battlefield.