Practice News Story 7: Speech

November 19th, 1863
GETTYSBURG, PA

Lincoln Speaks to a Big Crowd


Four months ago the North and the South fought one of the biggest, bloodiest battles of the Civil War, killing 7500 American soldiers. On a hot and muggy day in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln gave the speech that is being tagged the Gettysburg Address. In front of 1500 people in attendance President Lincoln said, “We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live” Lincoln was very brief in his speech. The Civil War is still being fought today, and the North seems to have a firm hold on the South. But on this day in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the crowd was a somber and sad as all of these men have died fighting for their country. The battlefield will be a cemetery for those who died in this battle, and also it will be a landmark for the Civil War and what it meant. The North one this battle by a narrow margin, but everybody who fought and died for their country will be remembered here in Gettysburg.