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Several months after the Battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln gave the speech that is now called the Gettysburg Address
President Lincoln gave a short speech called the Gettysburg Address at the battle site a few months after the battle. Basically, Lincoln said that Gettysburg would never be forgotten, and that it would be a battle museum , in a way.
On April 15, 1861 President Lincoln declared a "state of insurrection." The US Civil War, like the Vietnam War was not a declared war. After his declaration he set out a call-up for men to man his armies.
Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery there in November of 1863, four months after the battle.
Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery there in November of 1863, four months after the battle.
The speech Abraham Lincoln gave 4 months after the Battle of Gettysburg. He talked about equal rights.
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 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.
There were many honorary ceremonies for the death of soldiers in the US Civil War. Several months after the Battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln was invited to speak about the loss of life of the many soldiers that died in that battle.
The setting was Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on Thursday, November 19, 1863. Lincoln was speaking at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery. This was less than 5 months since the Union beat the Confederacy in the Battle of Gettysburg, so it was a very symbolic setting.
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.
That is where the Battle of Gettysburg and, months later, the Gettysburg Address too place.