![]() (Applause.) Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. The Associated Press, which was there for the event, transmitted the speech as read:įour 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 are created equal. senator Edward Everett’s two-hour dedication speech which preceded Lincoln’s, the president’s 272-word address given in just over two minutes was brief by all accounts, but would go on to become Lincoln’s most iconic. Willis, who had originally created the idea of the national cemetery and organized its dedication, had told the President his part in the ceremony would be small.Ĭompared to former U.S. ![]() President Abraham Lincoln had been invited by Judge David Willis by letter to offer remarks to close the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery that stood in the aftermath of that battlefield. Novemstood in the midst of the American Civil War, four and a half months after the bloody Union victory in Gettysburg. ![]() It had been 87 years since the Declaration of Independence was written at the beginning of the American Revolution. Tuesday, 150 years to the day of President Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address, thousands gathered in Gettysburg’s Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Pennsylvania to remember the historic dedication. President Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, here at Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Photo by Flickr Creative Commons user Digitonin
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