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The speeches of Abraham Lincoln

elivered on November 19, 1863. The occasion for the speech was the dedication of a cemetery in Gettysburg, a portion of the battlefield that was to become a permanent cemetery for the Union dead. At the time, Lincoln had given up on the idea that the war would be won soon, and indeed after the near-disaster at Chickamauga and Chattanooga, he was less confident in the outcome of the war. As the time for the dedication drew near, certain thoughts occupied Lincoln's mind. When he was asked to appear at the dedication, he surprised his Cabinet by agreeing to go. At the time, he was fully aware of the price still to be paid for victory but also had hope that the war would be won.

The speech that Lincoln delivered that day at Gettysburg was derived from the rhetorical devices and behaviors he demonstrated all his adult life. Part of this speech echoed Pericles' funeral oration, other parts speeches of Euclid and Lincoln's own eulogy of Henry

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