the day after the election he relieved mcclelland of duty. the next piece that was brought out of the vault today is the most significant piece that we have at the abraham lincoln presidential library and that is saying a lot. but this is one of five copies in existence of the gettysburg address handwritten by abraham lincoln. this time that he wrote out the gettysburg address he gave it to edward everest. today we don't really remember edward at first but in the nineteenth century everett -- edward everest was a prominent individual, a great speaker, actually the main speaker at gettysburg on november 19th, 1863. he gives the main speech when they are dedicating the cemetery. he gives a talk that lasts for over two hours. he did not speak from notes and he sort of put the battle of gettysburg into the context of world history, the great battles of world history. after he finished his talk abraham lincoln came up and read from two sheets of paper. "after words," everett sent him a little note that said you said more in two minutes than i was

john sedgewick, who is a carry over of the mcclelland days and is just as slow as george mcclelland. [inaudible] howard, who is just named [inaudible] howard. that can say it all. he's probably the most inept cork manner of everyone you are seeing here and that includes dan cycles. then you have henry slow come would even bore dry wall. but he's a pretty brilliant man, but not a very daring commander. so joe hooker is going to bring a list of characters to fight stonewall jackson, robert e. lee and jeb stewart. three of the most audacious officers to fight in the american civil war. he's not exactly bringing what i'm would call a 18 tibet. he does have men who are experienced in their respective roles, some are inexperienced in their respective roles like oliver howard and dan cycles. george mead, has a little bit of experience. john sedgewick, this is his first time commanding a core. then he will be given a wing of the army, about 60,000 men. so we have a lot of new guys coming in to take on a veteran army that is commanded by robert e. lee. lee at this time is 55 years old, he is

possible, get as many black fault behind union lines and some legal definition of freedom before mcclelland or the democrats engineer a negotiated peace or whatever the going to do. >> and reverse the executive order. >> reversal mastication, just imagine this. as if it happened. >> i don't know exactly what douglas thought of course but i know his reaction was basically something like, sure! and he did ask, how my supposed to do this? all we can had was, all the word department will help you. okay. he goes back to rochester. it's only about ten days. and he starts firing off telegrams and letters to abolitionists ruins. we're going to do, this i think! i don't know how. then comes to atlanta, september 2nd or third. which was maybe the biggest turning point in the war, in terms of morale. and then each because -- he had just taken the bay, and the largest naval battle of the war. the war had really turned. it gets saved by history. here >> he writes a. planning right along plan. a bounty plan. he was going to hire uniformed african-american bounty hunters to find. >> he's been asked to ena

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making his cabinet sign documents about cooperating with the democratic eventual winner george mcclelland when he's telling the editor of "the new york times." he also has a back up plan about enforcing emancipation while the federal government can with frederick douglass. let's just briefly talk about that. >> douglass in that photo, they're all great photos, but you might think douglass is inperterbable if the that's a word. lincoln believes there's a chance he's not going to get reelected. >> it's only a week from sherman -- >> exactly. that makes all the difference. but what is it, 65,000 casualties, dead, wounded and missing in the summer of '65 alone? >> 4. >> '64, sorry. >> the north is sick of the war. calls douglass to the white house, looks him in the eye and asks him to be the chief agent of a scheme to funnel as many slaves as possible out of the upper south before election day -- >> before inauguration day. >> i thought it was before november. >> i think it was after. >> that's right, four-month -- all this time -- anyway, i may lose this election so help me create this screa