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Definition of Gettysburg Address
1. Noun. A three-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg (November 19, 1863).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gettysburg Address
Literary usage of Gettysburg Address
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"THE Gettysburg Address Remarks at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at
Gettysburg, November I9th, 1863 FOURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"LINCOLN'S Gettysburg Address (1863) [On Nov. 19, 1863, a part of the battlefield
of Gettysburg was set aside as a cemetery, where monuments to the soldiers ..."
3. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"... LINCOLN THE Gettysburg Address [Address of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President
of the United States (born in Hardin County, Kentucky, February 12, ..."
4. The Forms of Public Address by George Pierce Baker (1904)
"Gettysburg Address. November 19, 1863. [" Mr. David Wills, of Gettysburg, first
suggested the creation of a national cemetery on the battlefield, ..."
5. Classified Models of Speech Composition: Ninety-five Complete Speeches by James Milton O'Neill (1921)
"§34 THE Gettysburg Address By Abraham Lincoln (Address delivered at the dedication
of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa., November 19, 1863. ..."
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