Lincoln Address Memorial
N 39° 49.053 W 077° 13.911
18S E 308975 N 4409890
This memorial is located at the Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, PA. It commemorates Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.
Waymark Code: WM26T5
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 09/13/2007
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LEFT side facing the memorial:
"The several states having soldiers in the army of the Potomac who were killed at the battle of Gettysburg or have since died at the various hospitals which were established in the vicinity have procured grounds on a prominent part of the battlefield for a cemetery and are having the dead removed to them and properly buried
These grounds will be consecrated and set apart to this sacred purpose on Thursday the 19th instant. It is the desire that you as chief executive of the nation formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks. It will be a source of great gratification to the many widows and orphans that have been made almost friendless by the great battle here to have you here personally and it will kindle anew in the breasts of the comrades of these brave dead who are now in the tented field or nobly meeting the foe in the front a confidence that they who sleep in death on the battlefield are not fogotten by those highest in authority and they will feel that should their fate be the same their remains will not be uncared for"
From letter of invitation to Abraham Lincoln President of the United States who on November 19, 1863 near this place delivered the address at the dedication of the cemetery
RIGHT side facing the 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.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead-who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation under god, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Location Type: Statue/Bust/Portrait
Property Type: Public
Date of Event: 01/24/1912
Location Notes:
This memorial is located across the street from the visitor center, just inside the gates to the cemetery on the right.
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