concluding his speech was an utter failure. Later, he comforts a Confederate Captain as he dies in a prison hospital, and the Captain, who does not recognize him, praises the Address as "one of the great speeches in history". The wildly popular story was assigned reading for multiple generations of school children in the United States and may be the most popular book ever published about Lincoln, though historians take issue with Andrews' work. The story was largely responsible for the persistent myth that Lincoln hurriedly wrote the Address on the train on the way to Gettysburg. That story reached Andrews through her son Paul, whose history teacher, Walter Burlingame, overheard his father, diplomat Anson Burlingame, hear it from Senator Edward Everett, the featured speaker at Gettysburg. Burlingame's other son, Edward L. Burlingame, was the founding editor of Scribner's. "The Perfect Tribute" was adapted into a 1935 MGM short film starring Chic Sale as Lincoln and a 1991 television movie starring Jason Robards as the President. Two of Andrews' other works were adapted for film: The Courage of the Common Place in 1917 and Three Things, as The Unbeliever in 1918. Bibliography Vive L'Empereur (1902) A Kidnapped Colony (1903) Bob and the Guides (1906) A Good Samaritan (1906) The Perfect Tribute (1906) The Militants (1907) The Enchanted Forest (1909) The Courage of the Common Place (1911) Counsel Assigned (1912) The Marshal (1912) The Eternal Masculine (1913) August First with R.I. Murray (1915) Three Things (1915) The Eternal Feminine (1916) Old Glory (1916), a collection of 3 stories: The Colors, The Stranger Within the Gates, and The Star-Spangled Banner Crosses of War (1918) Joy in the Morning (1919) His Soul Goes Marching On (1922) Yellow Butterflies (1922) Pontifex Maximus (1925) A Lost Commander: Florence Nightingale (1929) White Satin Dress (1930) References External links Works by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews at Project Gutenberg Australia Works by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews at The Online Books Page William Shankland Andrews at Political Graveyard 1860 births 1936 deaths 20th-century American novelists American women short story writers American women novelists Writers from Mobile, Alabama Writers from Syracuse, New York Writers from Lexington, Kentucky Novelists from Alabama 20th-century American women writers Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Syracuse, New York) 20th-century American short story writers Novelists from New York (state) Kentucky women writers Novelists from Kentucky American writers