The Gettysburg Address (Recited)

This is a video which includes a reading of the Gettysburg Address. The photos were generously provided by the Gettysburg Pictures group (a growing list of contributors is pasted below). The audio is from the TV special Death and the Civil War.

A special thanks goes to these contributors:

Aidon McConville

Barbara Tallman

Bob Buenger

Brett Beasley

Brian Pickering

Ceasar Faison

Charles W Allen

Chris Walters

Desiree Bowman

Diane Wilen

Emma Stj

Frank Patsy

Fred Liller

George Neat

Jaci Manchor

Jason Campbell

Jenifer Tillmann

Jim Beeghley

Jim Bumbaugh

Jo Anzalone

John Kindell Renn

Juliana Love

Keith McGill

Kim Costello Fissel

Mike Santarelli

MJ Carcuro

Paul Errett

Patty Amora-Pender

Ray Collins

Robert Fissel

Robert R Marshall

Robert Pellegrino

Ron Zanani

Sherry Bettis Wiley

Steve Smith

Susan E, Weigel

Ted Meyers

Tess Reeves LaFrance

Tom Crone

Tom DeVore

William Rogers

Words to the Gettysburg Address, which was delivered on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The speech occurred four and a half months after the Union Army of the Potomac defeated Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of 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 battle-field 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 can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not 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."