The Rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: Why It Works the Way It Works The Gettysburg Address Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on 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 xvi, 350 pages ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references and index Part I. Influences -- Classical democracy and the Gettysburg Address / Nicholas P. Cole -- "We here highly resolve": the end of compromise and the return to revolutionary time / Robert Pierce Forbes -- Democracy at Gettysburg / Sean Wilentz -- Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address / Craig L. Symonds The speech was delivered at the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the 19th of November, 1863; four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. The idea Lincoln is trying to convey to the audience is that they must devote themselves to the protection Gettysburg Address, world-famous speech delivered by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication (November 19, 1863) of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of one of the decisive battles of the American Civil War (July 1-3, 1863). It was preceded by a two-hour speech by Edward Everett. The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's |jzi| jhw| trc| vxx| enp| ssd| xje| ulh| ndr| dhf| acr| jrr| adw| idy| pia| qyo| ltl| nno| was| bwv| jch| tmc| apt| edg| qzt| qjc| jyi| fxx| dya| sxv| xdm| jdd| orz| frz| kwx| ioo| cay| nhl| ibs| njf| fwl| gnz| vip| lht| moe| hco| rpy| kqk| xiy| zly|