abraham lincoln giving the gettysburg address

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. Over one-hundred fifty years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the 'Gettysburg Address.' At a scant 272 words, it has become Lincoln’s most famous speech and is one of American. He ate dinner and spent the night at Wills mansion before giving his famous address the next day. 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. Lincoln arrived in Gettysburg at 5:00 P.M.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 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. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. When did Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address Gettysburg Address: 1863. The speaker before Lincoln, Edward Everett, was one of the most popular orators of his day. Fourscore 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. President Lincoln Delivered the Gettysburg Address. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, “GETTYSBURG ADDRESS” (19 NOVEMBER 1863)

Abraham lincoln giving the gettysburg address