From The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, IL: Matthew Brady took this photograph of the crowd in attendance on the grounds of a Gettysburg cemetery. Although the speech was to dedicate the new Soldiers' National Cemetery (now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery) where the Battle of Gettysburg had happened four years earlier, the event actually took place at an old, private cemetery up on the crest of the hill overlooking the site.
Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address, delivered on November 19, 1863 to dedicate the new cemetery (union) at Gettysburg Pennsylvania, is perhaps Lincoln’s most important speech. The speech was only 271 words long and took Lincoln only about two minutes to read, but the impact of his words was enormous and the challenge he laid out has never been more relevant than it is today.
Read the full text of the Gettysburg Address from OwlEyes.org
“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.”