5 Quotes About Gettysburg

The Gettysburg Address is a speech by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It remains one of the most famous speeches in American history. Lincoln’s address was an attempt to comfort the nation after the Civil War (1861–65), which he had waged to preserve the Union. It was drafted in less than an hour, and it has been widely regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history.

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The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles were things that were fought somewhere else, won somehow, by someone, and lost by someone else. Now as she stood by her own door and listened to the cannons, it was with a chilling, dreadfully full and clear realization that men were out on the field beneath that gray cloud taking each other’s lives. Elisabeth Grace Foley
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The rain still drummed on the roof, like fine needles striking the shingles. The family sat silently around the table, each one wrapped in their own thoughts. It was Matthew’s voice that broke the silence, asking, “And what happened after that?”“ After that, ” said Paul, “came Gettysburg. Elisabeth Grace Foley
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I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost. George McClellandin Blue
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He blamed television, movies, and books for his love of ghosts. It was a fascination that’s been with him since his youth. He always loved watching or reading anything that had to do with ghosts and haunted locations, especially historic sites like New Orleans, Salem, Tombstone, Gettysburg, and Old San Juan. Jason Medina