Asa far as Lincoln's own hand-written version, Johnson said that the president evidently extemporized on the text he held in his own hand, a document referred to as the Nicolay copy or the battlefield draft. In addition, he later wrote out several other longhand copies and while doing so improved here and there on his wording -- what he wished he had originally said.
Johnson's research shows that he also used the published versions in the newspapers as well as his own text.
As far as the "Good God" that appears in the first line of the Tribune version of the speech and in no other place, he believes it was a telegraph error and that the reporter intended to relate the shouts from the crowd, "Good! Good!"
Both the Tribune and AP versions were interspersed with notes of when the crowd interrupted the speech to clap. The Tribune reporter said "Great applause" and "Immense applause" at times.
Definitely More Than I Knew. --Old Secesh
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