In the midst of one of the goriest and ensanguined civil wars the world has seen, where brothers fought brothers, and families were divided in battle, Abraham Lincoln was the president of The United States of America. On November 19th, 1863, Lincoln delivered what is now known as one of the most influential speeches in American history, The Gettysburg Address.
The Battle of Gettysburg had left a devastating number of fallen soldiers, broken families, pain, and mourning. Abraham Lincoln made his way alongside thousands of people to pay his respect to the fallen soldiers of The Battle of Gettysburg. He then preceded to deliver one of the most famous speeches in time. Unconventionally, his speech was not hours long, like the usual presidential speeches at the time. With a duration of a couple minutes, Lincoln was able to say just what the nation needed to hear. He
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Lincoln passionately spoke of the dedication that soldiers, both alive and fallen, had out into the war and into making sure the nation stayed as one, he spoke of making sure the fallen soldier’s lives were not lost in vain.
“The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here” Abraham Lincoln, 1863)
This quote can be interpreted as Lincoln saying that T\the world might not remeber the words that were said on the day of the battle, but they will forever remember what the soldiers did, and how they fought for the country.
“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.”, (Abraham Lincoln, 1863). The dead have done their part, the soldiers have fought, the soldiers have fallen. It is up to the living to take the sacrifices they made and turn them into impact, not let them go to