Photos Of Lincoln At Gettysburg

THE Gettysburg Address happened 150 years ago. On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln made his voice communication at a dedication to the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, where thousands of Union soldiers were laid to residue. TheGettysburg boxing saw federal forces fighting back a Amalgamated invasion of Pennsylvania.

"Four score and seven years ago…"Lincoln envisioned "a new nativity of freedom".

"The world volition little note, nor long remember what we say here, just information technology tin can never forget what they did hither," Lincoln said of those who fought the battle, in which as many equally l,000 soldiers were killed or wounded. "It is for united states of america the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far then nobly advanced."

Acme: President Abraham Lincoln (circled) speaking at the dedication of Soldiers National Cemetery on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa., November 19, 1863. Bottom: A longer view of the scene on ground still marked by evidences of the bloody battle four months before. The photo at top is an enlargement of the marked off rectangular area. Information technology is believed this may be the only photograph of Lincoln at the dedication where he fabricated the four infinitesimal speech which was to become a world classic. It was found in 1953 in the National Archives in Washington where it had gone unnoticed.

This is a photo of Baltimore Street in Gettysburg, Pa., on Nov. 19, 1863. The photograph was taken a few minutes before U.S. President Abraham Lincoln rode over this road to the Gettysburg National Cemetery during its dedication where he made the Gettysburg Address.

This combination epitome shows, height, a photo by Timothy H. O'Sullivan fabricated available by the Library of Congress of John 50. Burns, the "one-time hero of Gettysburg," with his gun and crutches in Gettysburg, Pa, in July 1983, and bottom, a Floridian portraying a wounded soldier from the 1st N.C. Infantry as function of a sit-in of a Confederate field hospital during ongoing activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Friday, June 28, 2013, in Gettysburg, Pa. Burns, 69, a veteran of the State of war of 1812, joined the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg and became a national celebrity after he survived the battle and his wounds. President Abraham Lincoln met with Burns before delivering the "Gettysburg Address.

This combination prototype shows, top, a photo taken between Sept. 8, 1862, and June 6, 1963, and fabricated bachelor by the Library of Congress of five soldiers of the 6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia outfitted with enfield muskets in front of their camp, and bottom, re-enactors portraying Union soldiers in Murray's Brigade during ongoing activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Th, June 27, 2013, at Bushey Farm in Gettysburg, Pa.

The embrace title of a sixteen-page pamphlet, printed a few days after Abraham Lincoln'due south Gettysburg Accost, is shown on April 21, 1942. The document contains the speeches of President Lincoln and Edward Everett made at the Battlefield dedication in Gettysburgh, Pa., on Nov. 19, 1862.

The first typhoon of Abraham Lincoln'due south Gettysburg Address is shown on Nov. 2, 1950. The president delivered the address at the dedication of the Gettysburg, Pa., battleground cemetery on November. 19, 1863. Lincoln gave the starting time draft to his secretarial assistant, John Hay, whose children presented it to the Library of Congress in 1916. It is written on one side of two sheets of newspaper in ink. Most of the concluding sentence is written in pencil. Date: 01/11/1863

An Abraham Lincoln statue looks out over visitors to the Tomb of Abraham Lincoln Tuesday, November. 19, 2013, the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln'due south famous Gettysburg Address spoken language, in Springfield, Ill.

A marker is seen over the burial site of Abraham Lincoln inside the Tomb of Abraham Lincoln Tuesday, November. nineteen, 2013

Marek Bennett sings the Battle Cry of Liberty before the Sons of Union Veterans of the Ceremonious War look at the sundial dedication anniversary at the statehouse plaza, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013 in Hold, N.H. The original sundial from the G Army of the Republic was dedicated in New Hampshire in 1942, but it became lost. The sundial ceremony was held on the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery by Abraham Lincoln.

Rick Miller a President Abraham Lincoln re-enactor poses for photographs afterwards a anniversary commemorating the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Soldiers'' National Cemetery and President Abraham Lincoln'southward Gettysburg Address, Tuesday, November. 19, 2013, in Gettysburg, Pa.