Indeed, I have been anticipated in the claim that Lincoln was a poet, as the gettysburg speech has been on several occasions called a poem.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Sedgwick's Corps who formed a marching column that stretched over ten miles of road, and in that hot month of July 1863, the story of how they marched steadily for eighteen hours, stopping only once to rest, until they reached gettysburg where the crucial battle was raging.
"The Civil War Centennial Handbook"
William H. Price
The whole world, I believe, will one day come to hold Vicksburg and gettysburg names of larger historic import than Waterloo or Sedan.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer