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The Gettysburg Address was a speech spoken by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg. The Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle because of the fact that there was mass amounts of killings and blood shed occurring. In fact it was the battle that had the greatest number of casualties during the Civil War.

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The Battle of Gettysburg was considered a bloody day because of the high number of casualties(deaths) during the battle.

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The weapons outstripped the tactics. Frontal assaults en masse, uphill, against well protected defensive positions, almost always leads to extremely high casualties.

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