Summary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863:
Lincoln delivered a very short speech at Gettysburg. He stated that America was born of the notions of liberty and equality, and that the men who died at Gettysburg- in America's Civil War- were fighting for the perseverance of any nation born of such noble and democratic ideals, as though the war was a test to see how a nation of America's ideals could be sustained.
He discusses how the people need to dedicate the battlefield to those who gave their lives. However, he recognizes that a dedication from the living at this time has little value compared to the consecration that the brave men who died on the field imparted to it.
Finally, he states that the men who passed away their will not have died in vain, and that he resolved, "...that the government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
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