How long was the Gettysburg address?

Answer 1

The Gettysburg Address was only ten sentences in length! In those few words he reminded the nation and the world why the world was being fought. It took Abe only three minutes to speak his speech, while it took Edward Everett, one of the greatest orators of that day, two hours at the ceremony to dedicate the national cemetery at Gettysburg. Abraham Lincoln gave the speech in front of a crowd on September 19, 1863.

title:'Abraham Lincoln"

author:Jim Hargrove.

About three minutes long and was a few hundred words long: 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.