Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln's speech was meant to dedicate Gettysburg
The Gettysburg Address was not meant to dedicate a battlefield, it was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. That cemetery was located on a portion of the battlefield where the Battle of Gettysburg took place.
The Gettysburg Address.
Abraham Lincoln went to the Gettysburg battlefield to dedicate a cemetery for the people who died there. He was in no danger as the fighting had been over for months in that area.
Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address at the ceremony to dedicate the military cemetery there.
Yes at the dedication of the Gettysburg battlefield's cemetery on November 19, 1863
He said that it had all ready been dedicated because the men who fell there had dedicated it with their blood. He was honoring those men.
Gettysburg address
You are thinking of Lincoln's famous Gettysburg address, given November 19,1863.
Lincoln is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery located in Springfield Illinois.
Lincoln delivered the Address to dedicate the Military Cemetery created there after the battle.
Abraham Lincoln is not dedicating a battlefield, rather the cemetery where the Union dead from the Battle of Gettysburg are buried. The wording of the speech can encompass all Union dead from all of the fields of battle.