Lincoln Delivers the Gettysburg Address

On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most memorable speeches in American history.  In just 272 words, Lincoln reminded a war-weary public why the Union had to fight, and win, the Civil War.  The Battle of Gettysburg, fought four months earlier, was the single bloodiest battle of the war.  Over the course of three days, more than 45,000 men were killed, injured, captured or went missing.  It also proved to be a turning point as it marked the last Confederate invasion of Northern territory and the beginning of the Southern army's ultimate decline.

To learn more about the the Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address, try the following resources:

• A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of Gettysburg (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Battle of Gettysburg (History Animated)
• Gettysburg Battle Strategy (History Channel)
• Gettysburg: Insight and Perspectives (Gilder Lehrman)
• Gettysburg Virtual Tour (Dickinson College)
• Gettysburg Address (Google Cultural Institute)
• Life on the Eve of the Battle of Gettysburg (National Constitution Center)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg (Virtual Gettysburg)
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (C-SPAN)
• Putting Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in Its Original Context (NPR)
• Understanding Lincoln: Gettysburg Address (Gilder Lehrman)
• The Battle of Gettysburg (New York Times)
• The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (Eyewitness to History)
• The Battle of Gettysburg as Covered by The Saturday Evening Post (CBS News)​
• The Legacy of Gettysburg (ABC News)
• The Words that Remade America (The Atlantic)

All of my posts on the Civil War can be found here.