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Gettysburg is often called the high-water mark of the confederacy. Lee attempted a spoiling attack in Pennsylvania to relieve pressure applied by Grant to Confederate forces in Mississippi and especially Vicksburg. Lee’s attack failed. Grant’s attack was successful. The Confederacy was split at the Mississippi River.  The Confederacy never recovered from these losses. Gettysburg is considered a great Union victory, though Meade failed to follow up and press Lee in retreat and further destroy the Army of Northern Virginia.

CNN's Jeremy Diamond claims without evidence that Trump might have his speech in Gettysburg because he loves the Confederacy: "This is a President who has consistently positions himself as a defender of Confederate symbols and monuments to Confederate generals." pic.twitter.com/cqKxbINsBx

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 10, 2020

In one of the most famous speeches ever delivered, Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. In that speech Lincoln proclaimed and defined the United States as:

“…a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…”

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was short, lasting only a few minutes. Photographers anticipated a much longer presentation and were not ready as Lincoln resumed his seat on the dias. The only photograph captured of Lincoln that day is below. The image is an enlargement to show the President. The President’s long time friend, Ward Hill Lamon, stands to his left in the top hat.

I used to know this speech by heart. It is dear to me.

The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on 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 battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — 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.

Modern American media is a disgusting joke, with few exceptions.