(A) “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
(B) ** “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.”
(C) “. . . that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
(D) “The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.”
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Concept note-1: -President Abraham Lincoln wrote and delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, to commemorate a new national cemetery at Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The Gettysburg Address’s significance is that it sought to give meaning to the sacrifice of soldiers who died during the war.
Concept note-2: -So, here “dedicated” expresses how the country is founded, or based on an idea or ideal. “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.