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4 days ago · In a short speech whose fame might rival that of the Gettysburg Address, the future president warned the “gentlemen of the Convention” that the country’s divided stance on slavery could only...
3 days ago · was the Civil War’s bloodiest battle and the inspiration for President Abraham Lincoln’s immortal Gettysburg Address. “You can stand in the tree line where Pickett’s Charge left from” in one of the largest assaults and take in sights such as water marks and rock fences for the feel of that battle, said Spess.
6 days ago · Soon after Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., he was carried across the street to a boarding house. At 7:22 the next morning, the 16th president of the United States took his last breath. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton is reported to have said, “Now he belongs to the ages.”.
1 day ago · I opened my desk drawer and pulled out Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, where he gives the beautiful dedication speech for the Gettysburg cemetery. He began by saying, “Our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”. Let those words sink in.
4 days ago · Pause for a moment of inspiration in the Gettysburg National Cemetery where President Abraham Lincoln delivered his legendary “Gettysburg Address.” Gettysburg’s many contemporary museums and intimate house tours offer fascinating insight into every aspect of the Civil War. From strategy to weaponry, from politics to timelines — you’ll ...
2 days ago · His Gettysburg Address came to be seen as one of the greatest and most influential statements of American national purpose.
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5 days ago · At Park, Paige (Redding) Ringhoff spoke about the “Gettysburg Address” by President Abraham Lincoln. Noting how the Battle of Gettysburg was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War, with between 45,000 and 51,000 lives lost between the two armies. “The Gettysburg Address is essentially a memorial speech and while the American Civil ...
