ABRAHAM
LINCOLN: The Gettysburg Address
On
November 19, 1863 Lincoln made his famous speech at the dedication of the
military cemetery memorializing the graves of soldiers fallen in the Battle of
Gettysburg, on July1-3
earlier
that year, which decisively eliminated the chance of a full Confederate victory
in the Civil War. (Full text here -- if you don’t remember it by heart from elementary
school!)
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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met
on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that
field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that
nation might live…
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