The Battle Of Gettysburg
...liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, to test whether that nation, or an nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on agreat battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place of those who here their lives that that nation might live. It is all fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate- we cannot concentrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us- 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- that this nation under god, shall have a new birth of freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in the Civil War leading to the defeat of the Union defeat of the Confederacy. Although neither side was awarded a victory at this particular battle it remains as the turning point of the war.
Between the years of 1850 to 1860, more than 2.8 million immigrants poured into the coastal cities of the north. New York's population soared from 515,000 to 814,000 during the 1850's. By the end of the decade, the northern states contained 4/5 of all American factories and 2/3 of the railroad mileage. The south...
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