Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, Ft. Logan National Cemetery - Denver, CO
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The Gettysburg Address was given at the dedication of the first National Cemetery in the US. It is fitting a monument to the moving speech is found at Ft. Logan National Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMME67
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2014
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While the Gettysburg Address was poignant and brief, there was no transcription of the actual speech. The most commonly found version below, is felt to be the most accurate, but no one really knows what the exact words of the speech was.
" 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 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: Historic Marker
Property Type: Public
Date of Event: November 19, 1863
Location Notes:
Ft. Logan National Cemetery is open sunrise to sunset. There are funerals occurring every day during all hours, so please be respectful. http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftlogan.asp
URL for Additional Information: Not listed
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