The Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches in US history. Which president delivered it?

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches in the history of the United States of America. The president delivered it on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the National Soldiers' Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Four and a half months earlier, the decisive Battle of Gettysburg had taken place, ending in victory for the Union Army over the Confederates. The carefully crafted address, which was supposed to be just one item on the day's agenda, went down in the country's history as one of the greatest speeches ever delivered on a topic of national importance. The speech lasted just over two minutes and consisted of 272 words. In it, the president referred to the principles of equality once proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and gave a new assessment of the Civil War: as a struggle to preserve the United States, accompanied by a "rebirth of liberty" designed to grant true equality to all citizens and preserve the union of states as a single nation in which all citizens are equal.