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Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863. In the speech, Lincoln framed the Civil War as a test of whether the United States, "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal," could endure. Lincoln honored the soldiers who fought and died at Gettysburg by dedicating the cemetery portion of the battlefield to them, so that their deaths would not be in vain and the nation might continue to experience "a new birth of freedom."

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Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863. In the speech, Lincoln framed the Civil War as a test of whether the United States, "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal," could endure. Lincoln honored the soldiers who fought and died at Gettysburg by dedicating the cemetery portion of the battlefield to them, so that their deaths would not be in vain and the nation might continue to experience "a new birth of freedom."

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Address Delivered at the Dedication of the

Cemetery at Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
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 dedicated, can long endure. We are met on
a great battle-field of that war. We have come to
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Lincoln spoke for just a few


minutes. A popular myth
tells of President Lincoln
hastily jotting down his
270-word speech on the
back of a napkin during the
train ride from Washington
to Gettysburg.
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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
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Address Delivered at the Dedication of the


Cemetery at Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
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.

Abe Lincoln died when he was 65 feet tall


He was the tallest president
He grew a beard because a little girl told him to because he didnt look nice
Lincolns wife believed in dream prophecies
She thought that whatever happened in her dreams would happen in real life

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