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Here is a hint- the battlefield was in Gettsyburg PA.
Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address at the ceremony to dedicate the military cemetery there.
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.
To commemorate the deaths of thousands of soldiers.
He was dedicating the Gettysburg cemetery and his speech laid out his thinking about the need for unification of the states.
Abraham Lincoln's speech was meant to dedicate Gettysburg
Lincoln made a reference to the Declaration of Independence because the true purpose of the speech was to renew waning support for the war.
Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address was given at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, PA on 19nov1863.
Speech given by Abraham Lincoln which captured the spirit of liberty and morality ideally held by citizens of a democracy. That ideal was threatened by the Civil War.
Lincoln made the speech at the dedication of the military cemetery, not a hotel.
The Gettysburg Address was a speech done by President Lincoln in which he dedicated a cemetery to the fallen soldiers of the Battle of Gettysburg which was the biggest battle of the Civil war. A little over 30,000 Americans were killed at this battle.