This Day in History Entry #302
November 19th, 2014 by Wordsman
Could a new birth of freedom ensure
That the founders’ creation’d endure?
That’s what still lay ahead
Once they’d buried the dead
Whose last sacrifice made the land pure
Event: Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
Year: 1863
Learn more: Gettysburg Address
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November 19th, 2014 at 9:38 am
There are maybe three great pieces of short writing to come out of the Civil War. The Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural and the The Battle Hymn of the Republic (aka, that song they play during the “Swinging Gates” formation). The Battle Hymn was also written on November 19, 1861.
November 19th, 2014 at 7:52 pm
And now there are four.