The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln - November 19, 1863

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Control Number	NWDNS-111-B-4975
Media	Photographs
Descr. Level	Item
Record Group	111
Series	B
Item	4975
Title	Crowd of citizens, soldiers, and etc. with Lincoln at Gettysburg.
Dates	ca.1921-ca.1921
Coverage Dates	ca.1860-ca.1865
Sample Record(s)	(larger access file - 75805 bytes)
Creating Org.	War Department. U.S. Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
General Note	Use War and Conflict Number 120 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image.
General Note	Use War and Conflict Number 121 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image.
Contributors	photographer, Mathew Brady Studio
See Also	Series Description
Subject Ref.	Civil War
Access	Unrestricted.
Use Restrictions	None.
Items	1 image(s)
Contact	Still Picture Branch (NWDNS), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001 PHONE: 301-713-6625 x234 FAX: 301-713-7436

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