<P> Despite the speech's prominent place in the history and popular culture of the United States, the exact wording and location of the speech are disputed . The five known manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's hand differ in a number of details, and also differ from contemporary newspaper reprints of the speech . Modern scholarship locates the speakers' platform 40 yards (or more) away from the Traditional Site within Soldiers' National Cemetery at the Soldiers' National Monument and entirely within private, adjacent Evergreen Cemetery . </P> <P> Following the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1--3, 1863, reburial of Union soldiers from the Gettysburg Battlefield graves began on October 17 . David Wills, of the committee for the November 19 Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, invited President Lincoln: "It is the desire that, after the Oration, you, as Chief Executive of the nation, formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks ." Lincoln's address followed the oration by Edward Everett, who subsequently included a copy of the Gettysburg Address in his 1864 book about the event (Address of the Hon . Edward Everett At the Consecration of the National Cemetery At Gettysburg, 19th November 1863, with the Dedicatory Speech of President Lincoln, and the Other Exercises of the Occasion; Accompanied by An Account of the Origin of the Undertaking and of the Arrangement of the Cemetery Grounds, and by a Map of the Battle - field and a Plan of the Cemetery). </P> <P> During the train trip from Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg on November 18, Lincoln remarked to John Hay that he felt weak . On the morning of November 19, Lincoln mentioned to John Nicolay that he was dizzy . In the railroad car the President rode with his secretary, John G. Nicolay, his assistant secretary, John Hay, the three members of his Cabinet who accompanied him, William Seward, John Usher and Montgomery Blair, several foreign officials and others . Hay noted that during the speech Lincoln's face had' a ghastly color' and that he was' sad, mournful, almost haggard .' After the speech, when Lincoln boarded the 6: 30 pm train for Washington, D.C., he was feverish and weak, with a severe headache . A protracted illness followed, which included a vesicular rash and was diagnosed as a mild case of smallpox . It thus seems highly likely that Lincoln was in the prodromal period of smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg address . </P> <P> The program organized for that day by Wills and his committee included: </P>

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