How to write a newspaper article about the Gettysburg Address ???I need to write two columns about the Gettysburg address as if the event happened...

If you follow the oca-encyclopedia link below, you will
find the dates, places, etc.  I would say that the trickiest thing to do is to write
about this as if you were living back in those days.  As the link tells us, Lincoln's
speech was seen as pretty unimportant at the time.  It was so short that it seemed
relatively pointless.  I think that you should talk about that in your article even
though we now see the speech as a major expression of our
values.

So, if I were you, I would talk about the Battle of
Gettysburg.  I would talk about how 23,000 Union and 28,000 Confederate soldiers became
casualties of war in the battle.  I would talk about how such a huge and important
battle (it stopped the Southern invasion of the North) deserved better than a three
paragraph speech.

By saying things like that, you will
sound like someone from that time period rather than someone from
today.