A home-schooled 16-year-old from Colorado has won a $5,000 federal grand prize for writing the best essay from America's schoolchildren about the importance of Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address. Rachel Shafer of Longmont, Colo., wrote that even President Lincoln sat down after his two-minute speech to consecrate the Gettysburg, Pa., battlefield cemetery, calling it "a flat failure" after featured speaker Edward Everett had worn out the crowd with a two-hour oration.
ORRVILLE -- On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as part of the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. That same speech was given by Gerald Payn as Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 2011, to more than 200 attendees at the University of Akron Wayne College's Civil War commemoration event. In addition to Payn's portrayal of Lincoln, living history actors portrayed a variety of other historical figures, including Mary Todd Lincoln and Harriet Tubman, who were portrayed respectively by Marilyn Payn and Lydia Thompson. There also were presentations about the life of a soldier during the Civil War, battlefield surgery techniques, Civil War fashions and music by Steve Ball, who performed songs from the period on his 1860's Martin guitar.
Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Things are not always as they seem. Take the site from which Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863. For years, visitors to this most famous of American battlefields were told - and markers have indicated - that our 16th president made his brief remarks from the spot where the Soldiers National Monument stands today. However, thanks to diligent historical research by able and scholarly park historian Kathleen Georg Harrison, this has been disproved. She has shown to the satisfaction of the National Park Service that President Lincoln spoke from within the town cemetery, Evergreen.
. . . that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. . . . - Gettysburg Address, 1863
Today, we observe a solemn celebration. Memorial Day is for remembering and commemorating the soldiers who have fallen. We are also celebrating those who currently serve our nation. To mark , we reprint below Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. As in 1863, our nation is at war. We are in a struggle with those who seek to deny our freedom. In this battle, soldiers make the ultimate sacrifice. Americans of all ages, creeds and parties are also in peril from Islamist fanatics and other violent radicals. It seems right to recall that America's struggle is the world's struggle.
The railroad station used by President Lincoln when he came to this small borough in 1863 to dedicate the Soldiers' National Cemetery and deliver the Gettysburg Address has been completely and beautifully restored. The Italianate villa-style station will be rededicated at 11 a.m. next Saturday, the 143rd anniversary of Lincoln's arrival at Gettysburg.
GALENA - "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. President Abraham Lincoln probably never imagined how famous these words would become when he delivered them during his Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Celebrities and public figures provide moving recitation of Lincoln's address for Remembrance Day commemoration GETTYSBURG, Pa., Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 147 years ago this week, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to central Pennsylvania to deliver one of the most famous speeches in world history, the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln delivered his remarks on November 19, 1863, during ceremonies dedicating the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
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