"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.
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.
Still Picture Branch (NWDNS), National Archives at College
Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001 PHONE: 301-713-6625
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