What was President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address about?

Answer 1

It was about the future of the United States. In making it, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality as set out in the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant.

Answer 2

President Lincoln's speech was about the men who had fought something they had believed in Abraham gave the speech to remind the nation of its roots and if such a nation as the US could survive. Lincoln actually wrote the speech on the train ride to Gettysburg.

Lincoln's address was short, a few minutes long. In the speech he honored both sides in the battle. He also referred to the Declaration of Independence. He gave great honor to the nation, and reminded everyone, that the US was unique in its freedoms. The speech was highly metaphysical in nature. Lincoln's brevity made a huge impact and as history has proven, his speech has stood the test of time due to the wisdom within his short address.

Answer 3

In July of 1863, the largest battle in the US Civil War took place. The battle was three days in length and was in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The North prevailed in this deadly conflict and ended any ideas of the South for a major incursion into Union territory. Some months later, November. 1863, Lincoln took a train for a ceremony commemorating the struggle there. Lincoln's famous speech, the Gettysburg Address took place there. In a short speech, he made it clear that all the soldiers lost there and who fought there were in a battle larger than itself, larger than the war and struck at whether a nation, a unique one in the world, could long endure. The speech was one that broke his heart.

Answer 4

This address was given as part of the ceremony that dedicated the Gettyburg battlefield to be a national cemetery. It mostly honors the men who fought in that battle.