Gettysburg Address, Steven B. Wiley and The Lincoln at Gettysburg Leadership Institute invite the public to sign a birthday card commemorating the 202nd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was born February 12, 1809 and served as the 16th president of our country from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Service milestones include his 1863 presidential Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, a document that declared slaves forever free, and his Gettysburg Address. Given in November 1863 at the inauguration of a military cemetery, the Gettysburg Address is one of the most memorable speeches in American history. Read More
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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. Read More
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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. Read More
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