Editing Battle of Gettysburg (section)

===Gettysburg Address===
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[[File:Crowd of citizens, soldiers, and etc. with Lincoln at Gettysburg. - NARA - 529085 -crop.jpg|thumb|On November 19, 1863, U.S. President [[Abraham Lincoln]] arrived at present-day [[Gettysburg National Cemetery]], where he participated in its commemoration and delivered the [[Gettysburg Address]], a 271-word speech that lasted only two minutes but has come to be considered one of the most famous speeches in American history.<ref>{{cite book |last=Conant |first=Sean |date=2015 |title=The Gettysburg Address: Perspectives on Lincoln's Greatest Speech |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_bmyBwAAQBAJ&pg=PR9 |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=ix |isbn=978-0-19-022745-6}}</ref><ref name="Holsinger 1999 102"/> A crowd of citizens and soldiers surround Lincoln (with a red arrow pointing to his location in photo).]]

The ravages of war were still evident in Gettysburg more than four months later when, on November 19, Soldiers' National Cemetery, later renamed [[Gettysburg National Cemetery]], was dedicated. During this ceremony, Lincoln honored the fallen and redefined the purpose of the war in his historic [[Gettysburg Address]], a 271-word address that is widely considered one of the most famous and significant speeches in American history.<ref>White, p. 251.</ref><ref group=fn>White, p.251. refers to Lincoln's use of the term "new birth of freedom" and writes, "The ''new birth'' that slowly emerged in Lincoln's politics meant that on November 19 at Gettysburg he was no longer, as in his inaugural address, defending an old Union but proclaiming a new Union. The old Union contained and attempted to restrain slavery. The new Union would fulfill the promise of liberty, the crucial step into the future that the Founders had failed to take."</ref>