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Essay Archive - The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg
 	"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 this
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.  We
have met on a great battlefield 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 this nation might live.  It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this.
	But ....
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