The Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863 The only known photo of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg (seated, center), taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived and some three hours before he spoke. To Lincoln's right is his bodyguard, Ward Hill Lemon.
The Gettysburg Address November 19, Ceremony dedicating a cemetery.
The Gettysburg Address November 19, Ceremony dedicating a cemetery. Edward Everett (Governor, Massachusetts) opens with a 2 hour speech.
The Gettysburg Address November 19, Abraham Lincoln speaks for 2 minutes
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The address is engraved into the side of the Lincoln Memorial.
- “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.”
The Gettysburg Address “we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground.”
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
“that we here highly resolve that these men shall not die in vain”
“that these dead shall not die in vain”
- “the government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.”
***** Puts closure on this incredible battle *******
*His Speech Motivates everyone !* “that these dead shall not die in vain”
Lincoln statue outside of the hotel he stayed at following his speech. The room he stayed in has a flag outside the window marking it’s location.
The Lincoln Address Memorial, designed by Louis Henrick, with bust of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Kirke Brown, erected at the Gettysburg Battlefield in 1912.
THANKSGIVING Oct 3, 1863 Lincoln declares that the last Thursday of November will be a Day of Thanksgiving!!
THANKSGIVING Oct 3, 1863
Gives troops and citizens a moral boost and a reason for thanks!!!! THANKSGIVING Oct 3, 1863