Gettysburg Address | A250 Mini Documentary
In November 1863, just months after the Battle of Gettysburg left more than 51,000 casualties, a new national cemetery was being dedicated on the battlefield. President Abraham Lincoln was invited to offer “a few appropriate remarks.”
After touring the grounds and reflecting on the sacrifice made there, Lincoln delivered a brief 272-word address that reshaped how the nation understood the war. In the Gettysburg Address, he connected the conflict to the founding promise of equality, honored the soldiers who had fallen, and called Americans to continue the “unfinished work” of preserving self-government so that freedom would endure.
