This Nov. 19, 1863, photo shows President Abraham Lincoln, center with no hat, surrounded by the crowd at the dedication of a portion of
the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as a national cemetery. The image was shot by Matthew Brady,

More than 7,000 combatants lost their lives in the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, which raged over the fields outside the Pennsylvania town July 1-3, 1863. Five months later, the site of what is viewed as the pivotal battle of the Civil War provided the stage where President Abraham Lincoln delivered a compact elegy that in many ways reshaped the nation.
The Gettysburg Address is an especially apt work to revisit on Memorial Day, which is set aside for the express purpose of........

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