No. The two were very different documents, and served very different purposes.
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order, written, signed and issued by President Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address was a speech, written and given by President Lincoln in order to dedicate a national cemetery to the men that died during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Signed the emancipation proclamation.
President Abraham Lincoln was most likely the onley person in the Oval Office when he signed the Emancipation proclomation.
If you truly believe you have an authentic signed copy of the Gettysburg Address you should probably contact the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC.
signed the emapncipation proclamation
The Gettysburg Address was not an executive order, which had to be issued and signed, it was a speech. Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address, shortly before he delivered it in Gettysburg, on November 19, 1863. He very likely, wrote it the night before or in the early morning hours on the 19th of November.
Signed the emancipation proclamation.
President Abraham Lincoln was most likely the onley person in the Oval Office when he signed the Emancipation proclomation.
The Emancipation Proclomation, freeing slaves in the South
The Emancipation Proclamation is a document written during the Civil War freeing slaves in the southern (Confederate) states. Abraham Lincoln signed the document.
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in the President's office in front of his cabinet. Lincoln issued it after the Union Victory at the Battle of Antietam and later at the Gettysburg Battlefield.
If you truly believe you have an authentic signed copy of the Gettysburg Address you should probably contact the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC.
He wanted to commemorate a memorial for the fallen soldiers of a civil war battle AND he wanted to drum up enthusiasm for the recently signed Emancipation Proclamation
He wanted to commemorate a memorial for the fallen soldiers of a civil war battle AND he wanted to drum up enthusiasm for the recently signed Emancipation Proclamation
signed the emapncipation proclamation
Slaves were freed on December 18, 1865, after the civil war. The 13th amendment freed them.
The Gettysburg Address was not an executive order, which had to be issued and signed, it was a speech. Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address, shortly before he delivered it in Gettysburg, on November 19, 1863. He very likely, wrote it the night before or in the early morning hours on the 19th of November.
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to prevent foreign recognition of the Confederate States of America. As Lincoln had no power to free slaves in the Confederate States, the document did not free any slaves and exempted slaves in loyal Union states and in those areas of the South occupied by Federal troops.