The Gettysburg Address

(2013)

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Inside front cover

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation

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Title page

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Jonathan Hennessey

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Aaron McConnell

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Tom Orzechowski

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Psst! Tillie...!

Genre

non-fiction; history; war

Characters

Tillie; mother; father; wounded soldiers; Rowland Dungan; Gabriel Fry; Confederate soldiers; Abraham Lincoln; telegraphist

Synopsis

Tillie and her family return to their farm to find it jammed with wounded soldiers, and try to assist them. Free black people of Gettysburg are captured by Confederate kidnapers, and haled off to slavery. Retreating Confederates face the disaster that has befallen them. Abraham Lincoln gets his first news of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Keywords

American Civil War; Confederate; Gettysburg; President; slavery; telegraph

Gettysburg (Table of Contents: 5)

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war

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Soldiers

Keywords

American Civil War; Gettysburg; soldier

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Two-page spread of the battle's aftermath

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Tom Orzechowski

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It is probably the most famous and influential speech in American history.

Genre

non-fiction; history; war

Characters

Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; George B. McClellan; visitor to Washington

Synopsis

Discussing the national conflicts that led up to the Civil War, and Lincoln's challenges in prosecuting it.

Keywords

American Civil War; educational; fact; Lincoln Memorial; National Archives; President; Washington D.C.

Four Score and Seven Years Ago (Table of Contents: 7)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history

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Abraham Lincoln; John C. Calhoun; Littleton Tazewell; Alexander H. Stephens; Jefferson Davis; visitors

Synopsis

Lincoln sees the Union as originating in 1776, with a commitment to rights and reason, and a rejection of arbitrary power; thus, the Union precedes and predates the Constitution. Others -- including leaders of the Confederacy -- see the Union and the Constitution as a voluntary association of states, for the convenience of the states, maintaining their independence and taking precedence over Union and Constitution alike.

Keywords

Constitution; Declaration of Independence; political science; states' rights

Our Fathers (Table of Contents: 8)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history

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George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; Alexander Hamilton; George Clinton; John Adams; John Randolph; Robert Barnwell Rhett; redcoats; visitor to Washington

Synopsis

Having declared independence on the grounds the British government was excessive, Americans experiment with a weak federal government, but soon recognize that a stronger central power is needed. The new Constitution leaves the upper limits of power vague. Washington, Adams, and Hamilton all insist that the federal power is supreme, but Jefferson and others, while agreeing to the new government, claim that its power is actually sharply limited.

Keywords

Constitution; Declaration of Independence; educational; fact; government; political science

Brought Forth on This Continent (Table of Contents: 9)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history

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Nicolas Denys; English colonists; slaves; Eli Whitney; cotton planters; Andrew Jackson; Abraham Lincoln; visitor to Washington

Synopsis

North America offers abundant cheap resources, but expensive scarce labor. Schemes to resolve this include slavery, which especially develops as a feature of the south, with its mild winters and long growing seasons. Southern cotton growers push ever westward, adding new states to the Union. But free-labor northerners do the same, loath to fall behind the south in Congressional representation. These movements develop into a race and a conflict.

Keywords

Cotton; cotton gin; educational; fact; slavery

A New Nation Conceived in Liberty and Dedicated to the Proposition That All Men Are Created Equal (Table of Contents: 10)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history

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Abraham Lincoln; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; Angelina Grimke; Frederick Douglass; Stephen A. Douglas; visitor to Washington

Synopsis

Even slave owners like Jefferson and Madison warned that slavery would choke the nation. Lincoln opines that the Founders elected to end slavery gradually, and took effective steps to do so. Even so, Lincoln carried many contemporary white prejudices concerning black people.

Keywords

African American; Afro-American; educational; fact; negro; President; slavery

Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War (Table of Contents: 11)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history; war

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Abraham Lincoln; slaves; slave owners; Union soldiers; Confederate soldiers; Jefferson Davis

Synopsis

Most Americans reject both secession and abolition, but tension rises to the point of war, partly sparked by the westward expansion and the Dred Scott decision. Having tried unsuccessfully to avoid war, Lincoln struggles with how best to wage it. He issues a partial Emancipation proclamation as a war measure, transforming the nature of the conflict.

Keywords

African American; Afro-American; American Civil War; educational; Emancipation Proclamation; fact; negro

Testing Whether That Nation or Any Nation so Conceived and so Dedicated Can Long Endure (Table of Contents: 12)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history

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Abraham Lincoln; Chief Justice Roger B. Taney

Synopsis

Despite his dedication to freedom, popular sovereignty, and the rule of law, Lincoln suspends habeas corpus during the crisis, and shuts down several newspapers. The south is particularly undemocratic, relying on fixed elections, lynching, and censorship of the mail.

Keywords

Constitution; educational; election; fact; President; Supreme Court

We Are Met on a Great Battlefield of That War (Table of Contents: 13)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history; war

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General Robert E. Lee; General George Gordon Meade; General J.E.B. Stuart; General John Buford; General Lewis Armistead; General James Longstreet; General George Armstrong Custer

Synopsis

As Lee invades Pennsylvania, terrain funnels troops toward Gettysburg, where a major battle develops. With catastrophic results, Lee vainly and repeatedly throws his men at Union forces with superior numbers, position, weaponry, and intelligence. After a three-day battle with horrendous losses on both sides, Lee's army flees southward.

Keywords

American Civil War; Battle; Confederacy; educational; fact; Gettysburg; Pennsylvania; Union

We Have Come to Dedicate a Portion of That Field (Table of Contents: 14)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history

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Abraham Lincoln; gravediggers; widow; townsfolk; Sanitary Commission workers

Synopsis

The three-day battle covers the ground with thousands of decomposing dead. The rush to bury them conflicts with the drive to identify them. From this huge need grows the plan for a national cemetery, a creation so significant that the President himself comes for the dedication.

Keywords

American Civil War; Cemetery; educational; fact; grave; widow

As a Final Resting Place For Those Who Here Gave Their Lives... Far Above Our Poor Power to Add or Detract. (Table of Contents: 15)

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non-fiction; history

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Washington Irving

Synopsis

As society develops a more optimistic and egalitarian view of humanity, it transforms its burial grounds from graveyards to restful landscaped cemeteries, of which the new cemetery at Gettysburg became a prime example.

Keywords

Cemetery; death; educational; fact; graveyard

The World Will Little Note, Nor Long Remember What We Say Here, But It Can Never Forget What They Did Here (Table of Contents: 16)

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Tom Orzechowski

Genre

non-fiction; history

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Edward Everett; Menachem Begin; Rosalyn Carter

Synopsis

While Lincoln's address has belied his prediction, main speaker Edward Everett's more partisan speech has indeed been little noted.

Keywords

Educational; fact; Gettysburg; Lincoln Memorial; oration; orator

It Is for Us the Living, Rather, to Be Dedicated Here to the Unfinished Work Which They Who Fought Here Have Thus Far so Nobly Advanced (Table of Contents: 17)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history

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Abraham Lincoln; Charles A. Dana; General Ulysses S. Grant; General William T. Sherman

Synopsis

Lincoln presses ahead with the unfinished business of war, politics, and abolition. He pushes through Congress the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery.

Keywords

Abolition; American Civil War; Atlanta; Constitution; draft riots; educational; fact; Vicksburg

It Is Rather for Us to Be Here Dedicated to the Great Task Remaining Before Us (Table of Contents: 18)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history

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Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis; Radical Republicans; John Wilkes Booth

Synopsis

Lincoln favors a liberal re-integration of the southern states, but many Congressional leaders demand more federal control. Both agree on extended political rights for African Americans, enraging John Wilkes Booth.

Keywords

American Civil War; educational; fact; Reconstruction

That From These Honored Dead (Table of Contents: 19)

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Tom Orzechowski

Genre

non-fiction; history

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Abraham Lincoln; John Wilkes Booth

Synopsis

Increasingly infuriated both at Union victories and at rights for African Americans, Booth murders Lincoln, then is killed himself during the manhunt. His co-conspirators botch their assigned assassinations, and most are executed.

Keywords

Actor; assassin; assassination; educational; execution; fact; gallows; hanging; President; theater; theatre; Washington D.C.

We Take Increased Devotion to That Cause... That These Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain (Table of Contents: 20)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history

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Andrew Johnson; Hiram Revels; Frederick Douglass

Synopsis

Allied with other southern politicians, new President Andrew Johnson fights back against rights gained by African Americans, stealing from them many hard-won liberties.

Keywords

African American; Afro-American; educational; fact; negro; Reconstruction

That This Nation, Under God (Table of Contents: 21)

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Tom Orzechowski

Genre

non-fiction; history

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Abraham Lincoln; David Davis; black minister

Synopsis

Despite the widespread religiosity of the day, Lincoln for most of his life declined any religious life. As the war went on he began to speak more in religious terms -- perhaps because of personal change, perhaps because it was expected. Churches disagreed fiercely on slavery, but faith became a major support for the slaves themselves.

Keywords

American Civil War; Christianity; church; educational; fact; religion; slavery

Shall Have a New Birth of Freedom (Table of Contents: 22)

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Tom Orzechowski

Genre

non-fiction; history

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Abraham Lincoln; Woodrow Wilson; Frederick Douglass; Booker T. Washington; Thurgood Marshall; Ross Barnett; Orval Faubus; George C. Wallace; J. Lindsay Almond Jr.; the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; visitor to Washington

Synopsis

For whites, a new birth of freedom means the triumph of free labor, the restoration of the Union, white supremacy, and a white-on-white reconciliation that ignores the reality of slavery driving the Civil War. For African Americans, although freed from slavery, the new birth would wait a hundred years and only come through sustained mass action against violent reaction. Despite the many failures of its application, the insistence that all men are created equal proved powerful enough to work its way.

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African American; Afro-American; civil rights; educational; fact; negro

And That Government of the People, by the People, for the People, Shall Not Perish from the Earth (Table of Contents: 23)

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Tom Orzechowski

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non-fiction; history

Characters

Abraham Lincoln; Lyndon B. Johnson; the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; the Reverend Theodore Parker; Daniel Webster; Cleon of Athens

Synopsis

Lincoln built these final remarks on precedent, and others since then have built upon Lincoln's words in turn. They reflect the Civil War's resolution of tensions between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. They imply that the United States is one nation of people, rather than a collection of states, and that Washington, rather than the state capitals, "is the people's foremost defender of freedom and liberty."

Keywords

American Civil War; Civil rights; democracy; educational; fact; President

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JH:

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Dedications and "front matter"

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Inside back cover

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Aaron McConnell

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A fully illustrated graphic adaptation that offers a new look at the Gettysburg Address, the bloody battle that prompted it, and the Civil War.

Characters

Abraham Lincoln

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Back cover