sam wickson went home and basically just slept for three months after the battle. he was -- people were worried about him. peek thought he was never going to be able to make it back. when he came back the fall he ran interest one of lincoln's people. there was a speech that lincoln gave two blocks away from here, two nite nights after the battle of gettysburg and vicesburg and lincoln gave a speech that schad some phraseology that that was in salk wilkson's dispatch about -- the second freedom, show up in the gettysburg address four months later. lincoln rad that dispatch, was thinking along the same line and even talk about not four score but in that time span, that period. so they were also talking about the place in the history of america and how important but also about this immense sacrifice that had just been rendered up in gettysburg. >> host: let's have a discussion. we have a microphone so raise your hand. we have a person over here. >> how are you doing? i have a technical question. if you were a reporter then, how was a story actually filed? because you'