The Gettysburg Address Delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers

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The Gettysburg AddressDelivered at the
dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863
15,000 spectators were in attendance
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Abraham Lincoln1809-1865

• Born 1809 in Kentucky to uneducated farmers
• in a one room log cabin (making him the first
  President born outside of the 13 colonies)
• Mother died when he was 9 years old. Became very
  close to step-mother.
• Formal education was only 18 months. Very well
  read and mostly self educated.
• Skilled in wrestling and using an axe.
• Stood 6 ft. 4 in. tall.
• Married to Mary Todd, whose family owned slaves.
• Had four sons. Only one survived into adulthood,
  Robert Lincoln.
• Elected to Illinois General Assembly in 1834
• Elected to US House of Representatives in 1846
• Elected 16th President (first Republican) of the
  US in 1861

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Historical ContextBattle of Gettysburg

• Battle was July 1-July 3, 1863 in Gettysburg,
  Pennsylvania
• Approximately
• 163,000 soldiers fought the battle
• over 7,500 were killed
• 27,000 were wounded
• 11,100 were captured or missing
• The southern forces were defeated

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Abraham Lincoln

• Leader of the Republican Party in 1860
• Becomes the 16th President of the United States
  receiving 40 of the popular vote
• Southerners called him the Black Republican

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Gettysburg Address

• The address was about a 2 minute speech given by
  President Lincoln at the dedication of the
  Soldiers National Cemetery.
• Given 4 months after the costliest battle of the
  Civil War.
• Total casualties of the War to this time 472,154
• This battle alone had 54,707 casualties

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Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863)
Main Points

• It is time we talk about the promise of equality.
• a new nation, conceived in liberty, and
  dedicated to the proposition that all men are
  created equal
• We honor the soldiers sacrifice.
• The world will little note, nor long remember
  what we say here, but it can never forget what
  they did here.
• It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the
  great task remaining before us
• The Union is worth fighting for.
• 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
  parish from the earth.