When Lincoln spoke, it was more than four months after that battle. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.īLOCK: Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, more than 50,000 dead and wounded. It took Lincoln just two, maybe three minutes to deliver with interruptions for applause. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Four score 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.īLOCK: It's a speech of remarkable brevity, about 270 words. Would he formally consecrate the National Cemetery at Gettysburg with a few appropriate remarks? Lincoln's speech, delivered 150 years ago, the Gettysburg Address, is, of course, now considered among the most famous in U.S. That was the invitation extended to President Lincoln. This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
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