nov 1, 1863 - Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

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Abraham Lincoln’s November 1863 speech dedicating a national cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield. Lincoln declared the nation’s founding ideal to be that “all men are created equal,” and he urged listeners to dedicate themselves out of the carnage of war to a “new birth of freedom” for the United States.
(after Gettysburg and Vicksburg)
In his Gettysburg Address, dedicating a national cemetery at the battlefield, Lincoln dared to hope that the Union might win. Such a victory, he argued, would extend the promise of the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal.” Without mentioning slavery by name, Lincoln suggested that Americans could draw “from these honored dead” the determination not only to preserve the Union, but also to bring about “a new birth of freedom” in the United States

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