USA HISTORY

After this battle, Pres. Lincoln gave an important speech honoring soldiers who had died and encouraging others to continue the fight.

(A) ** Gettysburg

(B) Vicksburg

(C) Antietam

(D) Shiloh

Concept note-1: -On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Honoring a request to offer a few remarks, Lincoln memorialized the Union dead and highlighted the redemptive power of their sacrifice.

Concept note-2: -Contents. On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered remarks, which later became known as the Gettysburg Address, at the official dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War.

Concept note-3: -Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. November 19, 1863 On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner referred to the most famous speech ever given by President Abraham Lincoln. In his eulogy on the slain president, he called the Gettysburg Address a “monumental act."

Concept note-4: -Lincoln delivered the address on November 19, 1863. He was in Gettysburg to dedicate a national military cemetery to the Union soldiers who fell at the Battle of Gettysburg four months earlier.

Concept note-5: -In the wake of the United States Civil War’s deadliest battle, President Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.