Aborham Lincoln's Gettysberg Adress
Brielyn Howard
The Gettysburg Adress is a speech by Lincoln is one of the best known pieces of American speeches and literature. It was delivered by Lincoln during our Civil war on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, to the dedication of the Soldier' National Cemetary in Gettysberg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the
Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysberg.
Lincoln's carefully crafted and thought over address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independance, and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by thee sesessioncrisis, with a "new birth of freedom",that would bring true equality to all of its citizens. Lincoln also redefined the Civil War as a struggle not just for the Union, but also for the principle of human equality and our African Americans struggles.
Beginning with the now rather famous phrase "Four score and seven years ago," referring to the Declaration of Independance, written at the start of theAmerican Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who lost their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Despite the speech's prominent place in the history and popular culture of the United States, the exact wording and location of the speech are unsure and disturbed. The five known manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address differ in a number of details and also differ from contemporary newspaper reprints of the speech. Modern scholarship locates the speakers' platform 40 yards (or more) away from the Traditional Site within Soldiers' National Cemetary, at the Soldiers' National Monument.
Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysberg.
Lincoln's carefully crafted and thought over address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independance, and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by thee sesessioncrisis, with a "new birth of freedom",that would bring true equality to all of its citizens. Lincoln also redefined the Civil War as a struggle not just for the Union, but also for the principle of human equality and our African Americans struggles.
Beginning with the now rather famous phrase "Four score and seven years ago," referring to the Declaration of Independance, written at the start of theAmerican Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who lost their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Despite the speech's prominent place in the history and popular culture of the United States, the exact wording and location of the speech are unsure and disturbed. The five known manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address differ in a number of details and also differ from contemporary newspaper reprints of the speech. Modern scholarship locates the speakers' platform 40 yards (or more) away from the Traditional Site within Soldiers' National Cemetary, at the Soldiers' National Monument.