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Gilbert's account reveals a different story:
After stating that he stopped taking notes, Gilbert did not mention that Lincoln manuscript.
Instead, Gilbert changed topics and went on to describe the larger story of the speech based on his research, not his personal recollection.
Gilbert (or his daughter) often copied word-for-word and without attribution from the memoirs of John Russell Young, whom Gilbert had known during the Civil War when both worked for the Philadelphia Press.
Gilbert ended his treatment of Lincoln's speech with still more unacknowledged repetition of Young's memoir. |