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for us to be here dedicated to the great >
us task remaining before — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion that to the cause for which they here gave gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish
Lincoln poses for photographer Alexander Gardner eleven days before delivering the Gettysburg Address.
from the earth.
Bareheaded, President Lincoln takes his place on the speaker’s platform at the new Gettysburg National Cemetery on November 19, 1863. Hours will pass—filled with hymns and orations—before he finally rises to deliver his two minutes of “appropriate remarks.”
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