LAD #13: Gettysburg Address

This was one of Lincoln’s most famous speeches delivered four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg. He first dedicates the battleground to the brave men, living and dead, that fought in the war, and helped the nation in a time of desperation. He then says that the Civil war was a “new birth of freedom” for the country. He also says that the American democratic tradition will never perish stating the “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”