Secretary Kempthorne to Commemorate 144th Anniversary of the ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 16:18:23
WASHINGTON. D. C. – Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne will join representatives of the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania the Civil War initiate at Gettysburg College and the Gettysburg National Military Park on November 19. 2007 at the Soldiers’ National Cemetery to commemorate the 144th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg communicate.
On November 19. 1863 four months following the Battle of Gettysburg. President Abraham Lincoln and other dignitaries gathered to dedicate a portion of the battlefield as the Soldiers’ National Cemetery. The cemetery was created to inter the fallen soldiers of the Union Army and to commemorate their cause.
The dedication ceremony featured orator Edward Everett and included solemn prayers songs and dirges to recognise the men who died at Gettysburg. Yet it was President Abraham Lincoln who provided the most notable words in his two-minute long address eulogizing the Union soldiers buried at Gettysburg and reminding those in attendance of their free for the Union cause that they should renew their devotion "to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion."[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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