Lincoln gave a short speech to dedicate a cemetery for civil war soldiers in Gettysburg, Pensilvania.
President Abraham Lincoln delivered his infamous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery.
Gettysburg military cemetery
President Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, dedicating the Soldiers' National Cemetery, a National Cemetery to the soldiers who died during the Gettysburg Battle, in July of 1863.
The cemetery at Gettysburg was created to honorably bury the white Union dead from the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. Part of the battlefield was in a cemetery along the union fishhook line. The ground the north occupied was named Cemetary Ridge. The soldiers cemetery was added after the battle next to this one.
Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery there in November of 1863, four months after the battle.
The cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield was dedicated on November 19, 1863.
Gettysburg is and was a town which, like all towns, had a cemetery. There is also a Gettysburg National Cemetery located on Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. David Wills, a local attorney was responsible for acquiring the land for this after the Civil War battle there.
Abraham Lincoln dedicated the Military Cemetery at Gettysburg in November 1863. It was the occasion for his Gettysburg Address.
The cemetery at Gettysburg was dedicated in the year of November19,1863
The national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is located in Southern Pennsylvania.
The Gettysburg Military Cemetery
The Gettysburg Address was delivered by Mr. Lincoln at the opening dedication of the cemetery, yes, but he was not the main speaker.