Editing Gettysburg Address (section)

==Program==
[[File:Edward Everett.jpg|thumb|[[Edward Everett]], who delivered the day's primary speech, a two-hour oration prior to Lincoln's much briefer remarks]]
The program that Wills and his committee organized for the day:

Music by Birgfeld's Band<ref>Boritt, Gabor. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=kioIFrPhTGcC&q=birgfeld The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows]''. [[Simon & Schuster]], 2008.</ref>("Homage d'uns Heros" by Adolph Birgfeld)
*Prayer, by Reverend [[Thomas H. Stockton|T. H. Stockton]]
*"Old Hundred" performed by the [[United States Marine Band|U.S. Marine Band]], directed by [[Francesco Maria Scala|Francis Scala]]
*Oration, by Hon. [[Edward Everett]] ("The Battles of Gettysburg")
*Music, Hymn ("Consecration Chant") by B. B. French, Esq., music by Wilson G Horner, sung by the Baltimore Glee Club
*Dedicatory remarks by the President of the United States
*Dirge, "Oh! It is Great for Our Country to Die", by James G. Percival with music by Alfred Delaney
*Benediction, given by [[Henry Louis Baugher|Reverend H. L. Baugher]]<ref name="wills" />

While Lincoln's short address proved to be by far the most historically notable that day, and is often held up as an example of English public oratory, Everett's oration was slated to be the main speech of the day. His now seldom read speech was 13,607 words in length,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=toHtEecTeFkC&pg=PA5 |title=Long Road to Gettysburg |page=5 |author=Murphy, Jim |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-618-05157-1 |access-date=December 10, 2007 |archive-date=July 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707000621/http://books.google.com/books?id=toHtEecTeFkC&pg=PA5 |url-status=live }}</ref> and lasted two hours.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/edwardeverettuni00reid_0 |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/edwardeverettuni00reid_0/page/192 192] |title=Edward Everett: Unionist Orator |others=Volume 7 |author=Reid, Ronald F. |year=1990 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |access-date=December 10, 2007 |isbn=978-0-313-26164-0}}</ref> During this era, lengthy dedication addresses of cemeteries, like the one delivered by Everett, were very common. The tradition began in 1831 when Justice [[Joseph Story]] delivered a lengthy dedication address at [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. Many of the lengthy addresses of the era linked cemeteries to the mission of the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]].<ref>Alfred L. Brophy, [https://ssrn.com/abstract=2304305] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503122723/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2304305|date=May 3, 2021}} "These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead': Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery"</ref>