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Civil War American National Cemeteries
Abraham Lincoln is inseparably connected with the solemnities consecrating the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Honored by his distinguished presence, his participating words may well become a part of this record, for they can never be too often pondered:
ADDRESS OP PRESIDENT LINCOLN AT THE CONSECRATION OP THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG, NOVEMBER 19TH, 1863.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon 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 or dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
National Cemeteries of the Civil War
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