Librivox recording of The Gettysburg Address. Read by Shurtagal. It was a cloudy November day in 1863 when thousands gathered to hear renowned orator Edward Everett dedicate a national cemetery at the site of a pivotal battle early in July of that year. By: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty,. Nov 19, 2003 A Reading of the Gettysburg Address Wednesday marks the 140th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Actor Sam Waterston reads the speech, which was written to commemorate the Union.
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Read by Shurtagal.
It was a cloudy November day in 1863 when thousands gathered to hear renowned orator Edward Everett dedicate a national cemetery at the site of a pivotal battle early in July of that year. Also present to deliver 'a few appropriate remarks' was the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln spoke but 278 words; Everett later wrote to the President, 'I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.' Though there are surviving transcripts of Everett's lengthly speech, it is Lincoln's words which have come to be known as 'The Gettysburg Address' (Summary by Chip)
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It remains without question the most memorable and memorized speech in American history. On November 19, 1863, in 272 words delivered among the freshly dug graves of Union dead upon the country’s bloodiest battlefield, Abraham Lincoln redefined American liberty and forever altered the course of the nation.
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