Honest Abe’s Birthday
His place in history as one of our greatest presidents is memorialized with the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. And next year marks the 200th anniversary of his birth, and the memorial to his life will be rededicated in a major ceremony.
But one of the most notable moments in Lincoln’s life, and in American history, occurred in 1863 in a field in southern Pennsylvania, just 90 miles north of Washington, DC.
The sixteenth U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln, gave a short speech, dedicating a battlefield where four months earlier saw the deadliest fighting of the Civil War. …read more
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