Presentation By David Dixon, Author and Historian
Location – UNT Health Science Center, Medical Education and Training Center, 1000 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107
Dinner – 6PM Program starts at 7PM
(Dinner Menu: Beef and Italian Sausage Lasagna, bread sticks, Caesar Salad and Dessert. $13 per person. RSVP to Jim Rosenthal by email or by calling or texting 817-307-9263)
All of us are familiar with Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address – one of the most widely quoted speeches of all time. The man who preceded Lincoln on the dais, Edward Everett, is also well known – primarily for the length of his talk (over 2 hours). But few know that there was a third speech that day given by Charles Anderson, a slave owner who sacrificed nearly everything to help save the Union. How did he wind up sharing the stage with the President and the best know orator of his day? What did he say?
Our speaker, David Dixon, will answer these questions and explain how the three featured speeches at Gettysburg were a carefully crafted rhetorical ensemble, each having a specific political purpose, in addition to memorializing the dead soldiers. He will also share the unusual story of the discovery of the speech manuscript itself, in a most unlikely place.
David is a frequent and popular speaker at Civil War related events and is the author of numerous articles. David’s book (with the same title as his talk) will be available for purchase and signing. Here is how one reviewer described it. ““It’s amazing that stimulating and informative Civil War books with whole new perspectives keep coming out of the woodwork. … This one makes it a pleasure to be a book review editor. . . .Don’t miss it.” And don’t miss David’s presentation of this little known story. See you on the 10th!