by Abraham Lincoln

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William V. Rathvon, who as a nine-year-old boy,
watched and listened to Abraham Lincoln deliver his address
at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863.
His story was told in 1938 and recorded on a 78 r.p.m. record.
On this record - he recalls what he saw and reads Lincoln's famous Gettyburg's Address.

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	On July 1-3, 1863 at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania was the turning point of the Civil War. This battle was the most famous and most important battle of the deadliest war on American soil. On the 19th of November 1863, President Lincoln delivered these immortal words at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that
"all men are created equal".

Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
testing whether that nation or any nation
so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field
as a final resting-place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that
we should do this.

But in a larger sense,
we cannot dedicate,
we cannot consecrate,
we cannot 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 --.

- Abraham Lincoln

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William V. Rathvon, who as a nine-year-old boy,
watched and listened to Abraham Lincoln deliver his address
at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863.
His story was told in 1938 and recorded on a 78 r.p.m. record.
On this record - he recalls what he saw and reads Lincoln's famous Gettyburg's Address.

On July 1-3, 1863 at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania was the turning point of the Civil War. This battle was the most famous and most important battle of the deadliest war on American soil.

On the 19th of November 1863, President Lincoln delivered these immortal words at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that
"all men are created equal".

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William V. Rathvon, who as a nine-year-old boy, watched and listened to Abraham Lincoln deliver his address at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863. His story was told in 1938 and recorded on a 78 r.p.m. record. On this record - he recalls what he saw and reads Lincoln's famous Gettyburg's Address.

On July 1-3, 1863 at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania was the turning point of the Civil War. This battle was the most famous and most important battle of the deadliest war on American soil.

On the 19th of November 1863, President Lincoln delivered these immortal words at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal".

Wait till "good ole rebel" finishes playing in the background
before starting this audio clip - thanx

William V. Rathvon, who as a nine-year-old boy,
watched and listened to Abraham Lincoln deliver his address
at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863.
His story was told in 1938 and recorded on a 78 r.p.m. record.
On this record - he recalls what he saw and reads Lincoln's famous Gettyburg's Address.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that
"all men are created equal".