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ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG,
PENNSYLVANIA
American History 1863
Gettysburg Address
The
occasion? The dedication of the
Soldiers' National Cemetery at
Gettysburg.
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Abraham Lincoln (center, without hat) at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863,
probably around noon, three hours prior to his
Gettysburg Address.
Also in the
photograph are Lincoln's private secretaries,
John Hay and John Nicolay, orator Edward
Everett, and Gettysburg attorney and organizer
David Wills.
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Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is sometimes compared with
Pericles' Funeral Oration.
It follows the full text transcript of
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, delivered at Gettysburg, PA -
November 19, 1863.
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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 battlefield 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 cannot dedicate, we
cannot consecrate, we cannot 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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