Gettysburg Address

At Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln called the Civil War a test of whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to human equality could endure. He said the battlefield was being set aside in part as a resting place for those who died so the nation might live, but insisted that the soldiers who struggled there had already consecrated the ground beyond any ceremony. He urged the living to devote themselves to the unfinished work advanced by the dead, to ensure that those who died had not died in vain, that the nation would experience a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people would not perish from the earth.

Andersonville, Georgia · United States