We Are Met on a Great Battlefield (The Gettysburg Chronicle Book 1)

We Are Met on a Great Battlefield

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Please have the disability coordinator at your school fill out this form. On a Great Battlefield: M87 Dewey Decimal Classification Although historians and enthusiasts continually add to the shelves of Gettysburg scholarship, they have paid only minimal attention to the battlefield itself and the process of preserving, interpreting, and remembering the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

Murray provides a critical perspective to Gettysburg historiography by offering an in-depth exploration of the national military park and how the Gettysburg battlefield has evolved since the National Park Service acquired the site in August As Murray reveals, the history of the Gettysburg battlefield underscores the complexity of preserving and interpreting a historic landscape. By highlighting the complicated nexus between preservation, tourism, popular culture, interpretation, and memory, On a Great Battlefield provides a unique perspective on the Mecca of Civil War landscapes.

We Are Met on a Great Battlefield: We Cannot Hallow This Ground: Gettysburg Does Its Part for Victory, — The Civil War Centennial at Gettysburg, — The New Gettysburg Experience, — So Conceived and So Dedicated: Balancing Preservation and Visitor Access, — But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot 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.

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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 here 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.

Of the five known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address, the Library of Congress has two. President Lincoln gave one of these to each of his two private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay.

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The other three copies of the Address were written by Lincoln for charitable purposes well after November But did he speak the phrase to the audience gathered before him? Gilbert, a member of the staff of the Associated Press, who claimed he wrote the phrase down as he recorded what he heard Lincoln say. Several months later, Edward Everett wrote Lincoln, requesting an autograph copy of the text of the Address which Everett wished to include with his publication of his own quite lengthy speech, given before Lincoln spoke.

The evidence shows that Lincoln spent much time molding and refining the text of his speech before he gave it, writing and rewriting it, deleting words and phrases, adding new ones etc. Yet, when he rose and spoke for barely five minutes he suddenly improvised by adding the phrase ab lib? In order to assure the long-term preservation of the two drafts of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in the Library of Congress collections, in the s the Preservation Directorate commissioned the design and manufacture of two environmental cases, one for each document. In addition, the Library constructed a low temperature vault where these encasements and other Top Treasures of the Library will be permanently stored.

As shown in the images below of the display encasement for the Nicolay copy of the Gettysburg Address, the two cases are constructed of heavy-gauge stainless steel frames with clear Plexiglas panels to allow access and viewing of the documents from both sides of the case.

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The cases are filled with inert argon gas that replaces all the oxygen in the case thereby virtually eliminating deterioration from oxidation. The argon gas is humidified to a low relative humidity to retain the moisture level required in the document, while reducing the impact of high or fluctuating relative humidity.

The Plexiglas filters out ultraviolet wavelengths to further protect the document from damaging non-visible radiation when on exhibition. Prior to the bicentennial Lincoln exhibition February—May , the cases were assessed in — to integrate advances in technology and new high performance materials. The installation of new gasket materials and valves, and extensive leak testing of the cases, ensured continued high performance to extend the lifetime of the anoxic environment. This controlled environment protects the documents from damaging fluctuations external to the encasement while minimizing oxidative or hydrolytic reactions within the case.

The first page of this draft was written in ink on Executive Mansion stationery before Lincoln went to Gettysburg. The page ends in an incomplete sentence which infers that a second page was written in Washington. There is no existing original page, however, that has been found that is written in ink. It shows indications of being a copy made by Lincoln of an original page he threw away, perhaps because it had been overwritten. When Lincoln made the penciled copy is uncertain. If we believe John G. Nicolay, Lincoln wrote the second page at Gettysburg.

Lincoln probably spoke with this draft in front of him.

That he did not embellish. It is clear that Gilbert did not record precisely what Lincoln actually said. Whether Lincoln actually said the phrase at the time the address was made remains an issue in dispute. Had Lincoln meant the phrase to be included, there is no intelligent reason why, having prepared at least two drafts of his speech over a number of days, he would not have interlined the phrase into the draft he actually spoke from.

Library of Congress Cornell University. This represents the earliest known of the five drafts of what may be the most famous American speech. Delivered by President Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at the dedication of a memorial cemetery on November 19, , it is now familiarly known as the "Gettysburg Address. The first page is on White House then Executive Mansion stationery, lending strong support to the theory that it was drafted in Washington, D. But the second page is on what has been loosely described as foolscap, suggesting that Lincoln was not fully satisfied with the final paragraph of the Address and rewrote that passage in Gettysburg, on November 19, while staying at the home of Judge David Wills.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Echoes of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer This is a new look at the sources of one of history's great speeches. While it has long been determined that Abraham Lincoln's writings were influenced by the King James Bible, until now no full-length study has shown the precise ways in which the Gettysburg Address uses its specific language.

John George Nicolay Copy This represents the earliest known of the five drafts of what may be the most famous American speech. George Bancroft Copy - Held at Cornell University " Fourscore 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. Preservation Techniques for Original Drafts In order to assure the long-term preservation of the two drafts of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in the Library of Congress collections, in the s the Preservation Directorate commissioned the design and manufacture of two environmental cases, one for each document.

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