Gettysburg Address

At the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on November 19, 1863, President Lincoln situated the Civil War within the nation’s founding in liberty and equality, honored those who gave their lives on the battlefield so the nation might live, declared that the living could not truly consecrate ground already made sacred by the struggle of the brave, and called for renewed devotion to the unfinished work of ensuring that the nation would have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people would not perish from the earth.

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