Problems Reporting During the Civil War: Oops, Tribune Got It Wrong-- Part 1

From the November 17, 2014, Chicago Tribune "Dateline Gettysburg: The Tribune regrets the (minor) error" by Eric Zorn.

Reporting during the Civil War had hardships that today's journalists could hardly imagine.  And, the unknown reporter from the Chicago Tribune assigned to go out to Gettysburg Battlefield in November 1863 could hardly be blamed for getting a few words wrong.  After all, this was in the time before loudspeakers and recorders.

We know the beginning words to be: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

But the Tribune correspondent (no byline appeared) had it: "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers established upon this continent a government subscribed in liberty and dedicated to the fundamental principle that all mankind are created equal by a good God."

Not Quite the Version We Know,  --Old Secesh