Want this question answered?
They were dedicating the Gettysburg Cemetery at the place where all the soldiers from both sides had died at the battle of Gettysburg
President Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, dedicating the Soldiers' National Cemetery, a National Cemetery to the soldiers who died during the Gettysburg Battle, in July of 1863.
It was the dedication to the Union cemetery at Gettysburg this is why he states.........."we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation can long endure." The graves of the fallen dead from the battle were still fresh when he came to dedicate the cemetery. The speech took 2 minutes.
The text of the Gettysburg Address indicates that Abraham Lincoln believed that the soldiers who died in the battle, had died to preserve the Union and the ideals of democracy on which it was based. He hopes that these ideals will survive and not perish.
Lincoln memorialized them in the Gettysburg Address.
In the Gettysburg Address President Lincoln says the soldiers at Gettysburg died so that the nation might live. This statement implies they died so the entire United States would one day be intact again. However, the rest of the speech leads you to believe they died to end slavery.
He wrote the Gettysburg Address to talk about the many soldiers who died at the Battle of Gettysburg.
They were dedicating the Gettysburg Cemetery at the place where all the soldiers from both sides had died at the battle of Gettysburg
Both the Confederate and the Union soldiers that died while fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg.
President Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, dedicating the Soldiers' National Cemetery, a National Cemetery to the soldiers who died during the Gettysburg Battle, in July of 1863.
President Lincoln's main message was to raise the morale of the soldiers fighting the civil war and honor the deceased soldiers of the Union. With this message, he urged the soldiers of the Union to keep strong, and to strive for victory. While speaking of the soldiers' bravery, Lincoln was actually speaking to the entire nation, both North and South. His words beckoned the American people to preserve the nation that had been created "four score and seven years ago...". He wanted all of the American people to realize that preserving the Union would be a difficult task, but in honor of the men who fought and died there this should be done.
I might be wrong.... but I believe he dedicated it to the soldiers who died, the soldiers who fought, the horrendous tragedy, or the people of Gettysburg. I hope my input helps you!
Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
First of all, its spelled Gettysburg, and its called the Gettysburg Address.
William Saunders :]
Willam Saunders
The text of the Gettysburg Address indicates that Abraham Lincoln believed that the soldiers who died in the battle, had died to preserve the Union and the ideals of democracy on which it was based. He hopes that these ideals will survive and not perish.