Gettysburg Address, The (version 3)

By Lincoln, Abraham

Book Id: WPLBN0002951104
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File Size: 1.29 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Gettysburg Address, The (version 3)
Author:	Lincoln, Abraham
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Essay/Short nonfiction, Philosophy
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Gettysburg Address, The (version 3)
Historic Publication Date:	1863
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Lincoln, B. A. (1863). Gettysburg Address, The (version 3). Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
The Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, in November, 1863, followed a few short months after the roiling, acrid clouds of gun smoke dissipated, leaving a little crossroads town in Pennsylvania heir to the human tragedy of over 7,000 corpses and 21,000 men suffering wounds. It was a most unnatural disaster. On November 19, the chief executive made the trip to the still-dazed, shot-torn community to deliver, almost as an afterthought (for he was not the keynote speaker), an address that clarified his belief that the Negro race should be liberated from their slavery, and that despite the loss of so much blood and life, the Union should hold to the goal of completing this emancipation. That he knew the eyes of the nation would rest of him was evident; this address was the first speech since his inauguration that he prepared in advance. But these carefully crafted words - only 269 of them - became a vital part of our nation's identity, and are a signature to the bedrock of our beliefs.

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Essay/Short nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics