Thursday, November 19, 1863, I traveled to pay my respects for all of the great soldiers of the Union that had died on this field in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The reason I chose to go four-and-a-half months after the Union had the victory is because I heard that Edward Everett was going to speak. Even though I went to see Edward Everett speak, I found President Lincoln’s Gettysburg address made much more of an impact on the people of the Union. Although Edward Everett’s two hour long speech was a great speech, it nowhere near made as much of an impact as Lincoln’s 272 word speech. At first when I arrived at the Battle Field I could still see the decaying piles of bodies that this Battle Field was being turned into a memorial for. All of the
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In the Lincoln’s speech I remember him saying, “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.” This showed a change in his views that neither I nor the others around me expected to hear from him that day. The Gettysburg address also addressed the issue that everyone in the World were created equal. By Lincoln saying, “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” at the beginning of his speech and that the end of his speech saying, “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,” Lincoln showed the view that the war was about slavery and about the freedom of all men that were created equal. Lincoln’s speech made a very clear impact on me and the people around me. For me this speech meant that I will probably have to get rid of my slaves eventually, even though I will probably not have to get rid of my slaves as soon as the Confederate states will because I am with the Union, this is still not a good sign for me. The others from Pennsylvania that I traveled with to get to Gettysburg were not too elated that Lincoln had now made the war about slavery because all of us knew what this meant for us and our
In the Lincoln’s speech I remember him saying, “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.” This showed a change in his views that neither I nor the others around me expected to hear from him that day. The Gettysburg address also addressed the issue that everyone in the World were created equal. By Lincoln saying, “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” at the beginning of his speech and that the end of his speech saying, “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,” Lincoln showed the view that the war was about slavery and about the freedom of all men that were created equal. Lincoln’s speech made a very clear impact on me and the people around me. For me this speech meant that I will probably have to get rid of my slaves eventually, even though I will probably not have to get rid of my slaves as soon as the Confederate states will because I am with the Union, this is still not a good sign for me. The others from Pennsylvania that I traveled with to get to Gettysburg were not too elated that Lincoln had now made the war about slavery because all of us knew what this meant for us and our