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Abraham Lincoln Reads the Gettysburg Address

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Gettysburg Vets shake hands

A Veteran of the North and the South shake hands 50 years hence (1913).

Listen to eyewitness to Gettysburg Address speak

Listen to William V. Rathvon speak in 1938 about his boyhood experience.

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A Reading of the Gettysburg Address

By Actor Sam Waterston

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Gettysburg's 'Hallowed Ground'

Historian McPherson Tours Battlefield on 140th Anniversary

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Lincoln at Gettysburg Photo tour

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The Invitation to Speak at Gettysburg

Written from Judge David Wills

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Recollections of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg

It was a bright, crisp morning in November, just sixty-eight years ago, that a party of neighbors set out from the hamlet of Possum Creek, in the foothills of the South Mountains. It was an eleven-mile trip by carriage to Gettysburg. A great battle had been fought there not so long before, and a President was coming that day to deliver an address whose ringing words and noble message were destined to roll down with irresistible force through all the years to come.

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Another created view of the address

The Address from an old book

November 19, 1863

The Date

Harper's Weekly Image

Earliest Known Draft of the Address

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Here I am Making the Speech

My Power Point Presentation of the Address

You can never be too overprepped.

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Bloggers who reference my Address

From the I Luv (misspelling I assume?) Wisdom blog

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"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."