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Abraham Lincoln's famous address.
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The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows
In the aftermath of the bloodiest battle ever fought in North America, the
little town of Gettysburg was engulfed in the worst man-made disaster in U.S.
history: close to 21,000 wounded; very few doctors; heroic women coping in
houses, barns, and churches turned into hospitals; dead horses and mules rotting
in farmyards and fields; and at least 7,000 dead soldiers who had to be dug up,
identified, and reburied. This was where Lincoln had to come to explain why the
horror of war must continue.
Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War
The Battle of Gettysburg has become the great "what if" of American history.
Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee the
victory he might have won.
The Maps of Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863 The
Maps Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863, by Bradley
Gottfried offers a unique approach to the study of this multifaceted engagement.
The Maps of Gettysburg plows new ground in the study of the campaign by breaking
down the entire campaign in 140 detailed original maps. These cartographic
originals bore down to the regimental level, and offer Civil Warriors a unique
and fascinating approach to studying the always climactic battle of the war.
Civil War Movies
Gone with the
Wind
The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1 – July 3, 1863), fought in, and around the
town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was the
battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is
frequently cited as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon
Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E.
Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North.
The battlefield contained the bodies of more than 7,500 dead soldiers and
several thousand horses of the Union's Army of the Potomac and the Confederacy's
Army of Northern Virginia.
The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham
Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history. It was
delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the
American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated the
Confederates at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.
Approximately 15,000 people are estimated to have attended
the ceremony of the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in
Gettysburg, including the sitting governors of six of the 24 Union states:
Andrew Gregg Curtin of Pennsylvania, Augustus Bradford of Maryland, Oliver P.
Morton of Indiana, Horatio Seymour of New York, Joel Parker of New Jersey, and
David Tod of Ohio. The precise location of the program within the grounds of the
cemetery is disputed.
Lincoln's "few appropriate remarks" summarized the war in 10 sentences and
272 words, rededicating the nation to the war effort and to the ideal that no
soldier at Gettysburg had died in vain.
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
battle-field 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 can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not
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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