Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) - Naval Cruise Book

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THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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 dedicatc.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. given on the battlefield near Gettysburg Pennsylvania November 19, 1863

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Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit courts for may years. His law partner said of him, His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest. ' ' He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858, Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860. As president, he built the Republican party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the C onfederacy. Lincoln never would let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg (see following page). Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to war. In planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion. The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the Nation ' s wounds... On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford ' s theatre in Washington by John Booth, and actor who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln ' s death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died. 16th U.S. President Served as president 1861-1865 Married to Mary Todd Lincoln Born February 12, 1809 Hardin County, Kentucky Died: April 15, 1865 Shot in Washington D.C. by John Wilkes Booth, an actor. text reproduced from www.whitehouse.gov

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