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Abraham Lincoln was the one that delivered the Gettysburg address. It was given in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on Thursday, November 19, 1863. It was a dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery roughly four months after Union soldiers defeated Confederate soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg.
At a dedication ceremony on November 19, 1863, four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, for the Soldiers' National Cemetery at the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.
It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.
This speech was the Gettysburg Address, given by Lincoln at the dedication of the new national cemetery for the many, many men who died at the battle of Gettysburg. This ceremony of dedication was held on the actual battlefield in Pennsylvania on Nov. 19, 1863.
The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, considered one of the best-known in American history.[1] It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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.
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The web address of the Four Mile Historic Park is: http://www.fourmilepark.org
The phone number of the Four Mile Historic Park is: 720-865-0800.
Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery there in November of 1863, four months after the battle.
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky are the four commonwealths of the US.
The Gettysburg address.