The Gettysburg Address is a short dedication speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln on 19 November 1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Speaking for only about two minutes after the featured orator Edward Everett's two-hour address, Lincoln reframed the war as a test of whether a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" could endure, and called on his listeners to ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Despite its brevity, the speech has come to be regarded as one of the most famous and most frequently quoted speeches in American history, and it reshaped how many Americans understood the purpose of the war and the meaning of the founding principles of the republic.
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Document Type Creation Year Origin PlaceGettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States 1 Current LocationFive manuscript copies survive: the Nicolay and Hay copies are held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; the Bliss copy is displayed in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House; the Everett copy is held by the Illinois State Historical Library; and the Bancroft copy is held by Cornell University. 1 Original Language Connections
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Derived from entity-description (backfill w-bfill-g2-0924): "a short dedication speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln"
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The Gettysburg Address is a dedication speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, following the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
Manuscripts section
There are five known manuscript copies of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
In Era: The Late Modern Period, lead paragraph and infobox, date
Infobox date: Start date and age-November 19, 1863
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