Fun facts about Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, delivered by Robert Morehouse: - Famou

Fun facts about Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, delivered by Robert Morehouse:

- Famous Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner photographed the address. (photo)

- Frederick Douglass was in attendance…and so was Lincoln’s future assassin John Wilkes Booth. (more info)

- One of two speeches inscribed in the Lincoln Memorial, the other being the Gettysburg Address.  (photo)

- Daniel Day-Lewis delivered excerpt of this speech when he portrayed the President in last year’s Oscar-winning movie Lincoln.

- Vice President-Elect Andrew Johnson drank whiskey to remedy his typhoid fever…and had a bit too much.  He was noticeably intoxicated during his inauguration.  (more info)

(Pictured: Original Draft of the speech)