nov 19, 1863 - The Gettysburg Address is delivered by President Abraham Lincoln.
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Where: Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
It's important to the lives and careers of Whitman and Dickinson because the war has become bloodier and more dark, so what they write reflects this to their audiences of what the war is becoming and is fighting for and/or against through their eyes.
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Timeline for Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
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