Being a student of real history, I have studied a lot of the major
conflicts that have taken place around the world for the last few
centuries... And one of my favourite studies happened to be the American
Civil War....
I have always been amazed at the causes and the battles of the American
Civil War, that occurred between April 12th 1861 when the Confederate
forces bombarded and forced the surrender of a Union garrison at Fort
Sumter in Charleston harbor in South Carolina, all the way through to
the surrender of General Robert E Lee to General Ulysses S Grant at
Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9th, 1865.... That 4 years of
bloodshed cost the lives of some 700000 people via both battle wounds
and diseases..... It was indeed a war to force the Confederate states
back into the Union fold and the repercussions of that war was felt
across America for decades....
One famous speech that was supposedly written and presented by US
President Abraham Lincoln was of course the famous Gettysburg Address,
which he presented at the commemoration of the new Gettysburg
battlefield cemetery on November 19th, 1863... The speech itself
presented by Abraham Lincoln was actually quite short and at the time
paled in comparison to the speech presented by Edward Everett who stood
at the podium for nearly 2 hours just before Lincoln spoke his famous
address and spewed some 13,600 words in an oration that most probably
put most people to sleep... But Lincoln's own 271 word short speech is
what people truly remember... Until now when some of the sick bastards
in control have finally done the unfathomable and actually changed the
wording of that speech!
