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http://www.alplm.org
 current
displays at . . .
ABRAHAM
LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
&
ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL MUSEUM
Gettysburg Address
On display June 1
through September 4
One of the most
famous documents in
United States
history goes back on
display at 9 a.m. on
Friday, June 1
through 5 p.m.
Tuesday, September 4
in the Treasures
Gallery at the
Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Museum
in Springfield. Paid
Museum admission is
required to view the
document.
There are five
original handwritten
versions of the
Gettysburg Address.
Two incomplete ones
are in the Library
of Congress, a
finished one is at
Cornell University,
and the only one he
signed and dated is
in the Lincoln
Bedroom of the White
House. The Abraham
Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum’s
copy, written at the
request of Edward
Everett, the main
speaker on November
19, 1863 at the
Gettysburg Cemetery
dedication, came to
the State of
Illinois in 1944
thanks to the
contributions of
pennies by Illinois
schoolchildren plus
a donation by
department store
magnate Marshall
Field III.
Illinois’s copy
contains the two
famous additional
words “under God”
that Lincoln had not
included in his two
original draft
copies.
The Gettysburg
Address is part of
the 52,000-item
Lincoln Collection
at the Abraham
Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum.
Pieces from the
collection are
displayed on a
rotating basis in
the Museum’s
Treasures Gallery,
and range from the
earliest known
document written by
Lincoln to items
belonging to his
wife and children
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Now Open at the ALPLM
The deadliest weapon
of the Civil War was
one that nobody
could see, killing
two soldiers for
every one felled by
gunfire. The
extraordinary
casualties caused by
that invisible
killer, disease; the
conventional weapons
used to create
slaughter on an
unprecedented scale;
horrific injuries
suffered on the
battlefield; and the
heroic efforts of
medical personnel to
treat soldiers on
both sides are
described in detail
in “To Kill and to
Heal: Weapons and
Medicine of the
Civil War,” a new
exhibit currently on
display at the
Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Museum
in Springfield.
“To Kill and to
Heal: Weapons and
Medicine of the
Civil War” opened
about a month after
the 150th
anniversary of the
Battle of Shiloh,
the first Civil War
battle with massive
casualties on a
scale that indicated
what the remaining
years of the war
would bring. Glenna
Schroeder-Lein is
the curator, and she
worked closely with
an exhibits team
consisting of John
Malinak, Michael
Casey, Carla Smith,
Katie Grant, the
Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library
Foundation,
staff from the
Illinois Historic
Preservation Agency,
and numerous
community groups,
institutions, and
individuals to
create the exhibit.
Paid admission to
the
Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Museum
is required to view
the exhibit.
Admission prices are
$12 for adults, $9
for senior citizens,
and $6 for children.
A special admission
rate of $5 is
available to those
who want to visit
only the new
exhibit.
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Boys In Blue: Illinois
Answers The Call
The
Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library’s
popular “Boys
In Blue: Illinois
Answers The Call”
Civil War 150th
anniversary exhibit
continues through
December of this
year. The updated
exhibit features all
new images and
artifacts, including
an original Civil
War battle flag and
items pertaining to
Illinois African
American soldiers
and Illinois units
raised from 1862.
The all-new “Boys in
Blue” exhibit builds
upon the success of
the original “Boys
in Blue” exhibit
which ran for most
of 2011 and was
viewed by more than
40,000 people, a
record for the
Presidential
Library. It may be
viewed weekdays free
of charge, and
features an original
flag from the Battle
of Corinth, one of
the key western
theater actions of
the Civil War in
which large numbers
of Illinois soldiers
fought. It will also
feature the faces,
letters, sketches
and songs of the men
who fought in
Illinois regiments
during the Civil
War, including U.S.
Colored Troop
regiments and those
from Illinois
regiments formed
starting in 1862.
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