CivilLetsPlays
11-20-2015, 03:56 AM
Posting this a little late but today Oct. 19th, 153 years ago in a small town in Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. At the time it was a speech that was criticized for being short but is now remembered as one of the greatest speeches in US history. The speech was given by the president for the dedication of the National Cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield. Beginning by invoking the image of the founding fathers and the new nation, Lincoln expressed his conviction that the Civil War was the ultimate test of whether the Union created in 1776 would survive, or whether it would “perish from the earth.” The dead at Gettysburg had laid down their lives for this noble cause, he said, and it was up to the living to confront the “great task” before them: ensuring that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Learn more about the Gettysburg Address here: http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/gettysburg-address
Learn more about the Gettysburg Address here: http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/gettysburg-address