American Civil War · TURNING POINT ·
Gettysburg Address (1863)
On the American Civil War map as “The Gettysburg Address”
19 Nov 1863 — Dedicating the soldiers’ cemetery, Lincoln reframes the war in 272 words: a nation “conceived in liberty,” now tested, and owed “a new birth of freedom.” The war’s meaning, fixed in two minutes.
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- Turning point
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- Legacy of the Civil War (chapter 13 of American Civil War)
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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