The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address was written by President Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln delivered the speech on November 19, 1863, to dedicate and set apart the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. The dedication was designed to commemorate the reburial of union soldiers from the temporary battlefield graves to the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Interestingly, it is widely believed that President Lincoln was in the early stages of developing smallpox when he delivered the legendary address.
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle claimed the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War.
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“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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
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