gettysburg adress?

Question

facts about the gettysburg Adress

Answer 1

The Library of Congress is a good place to start (see first below):

And, because it is so important, the text:

Four score 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 nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 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. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- 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 perish from the earth.

Answer 2

In November of 1863, four months after the Battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln was asked to give a speech dedicating The Gettysburg National Cemetery. Lincoln's speech lasted only two minutes, but it went into history as the immortal Gettysburg Address.

Answer 3

Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War. It was after this battle was over and President Lincoln saw the numbers of dead on both sides, that it was decided to declare the whole battle field an historic site. He either wrote, or had written the 'address', depending on whom you talk to, to dedicate it as such. It was hoped that this kind of thing would not happen again.