in 1978, gettysburg national military park historians thomas and kathleen harrison studied eyewitness accounts, as well as the existing photographs and shocked historians when they declared that the speaker's stand was much further uphill, where the brown mausoleum is located. this places the stand entirely within borders of neighboring evergreen cemetery. remember, there was no fence. the two properties in 1863. this meant lincoln wasn't in the national cemetery at all when he delivered his address. now the main problem, this placement is that the brown mausoleum stands that pile of rocks, the boulders that were known as the rocky center were located it you could not build a stand there. there were rocks there. but for some years, people accepted this location. in 1995, bill franz, anita released early photography, a gettysburg. he placed a speaker stand the confines of evergreen cemetery and listed the graves that formed the boundary of the stand. he made a convincing case. and f last 27 years, for anita's placement of the platform has become the accepted location. also in 1995, jam