Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address set to pictures in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg

1. in Pictures
The
Gettysburg
Address
Photo by Tim Evanson

2. Photo by Chicago Man
FOUR SCORE
and seven years ago...

3. our fathers brought forth on this continent
a new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that

5. Photo by SPakhrin
Now we are engaged
in a great civil war,

6. testing whether
that nation or any
nation so conceived
and so dedicated
can long endure.
Photo by SPakhrin

7. Photo by Zboula
We are met on a great
battlefield of that war.

8. We have come to
dedicate a
portion of that
field as a final
resting-place for
those who here
gave their lives
that that nation
might live.
Photo by John_from_CT

9. Photo by ronzzo1
It is altogether fitting
and proper that we
should do this.

10. Photo by
ninniane
But in a larger sense,
we cannot dedicate

11. we cannot consecrate
Photo by miss_leslie

12. we cannot hallow
this ground.
Photo by bowenmurphy

13. The brave men, living and dead who
struggled here have consecrated it far
above our poor power to add or detract.

14. The world will little note nor long remember
what we say here,

15. (Really... I
had no idea
people would
be reading
this 150
years later!)
Photo by
Tim Evanson

16. but it can never
forget what
they did here.
Photo by Ron Cogswell

17. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated
here to the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

18. It is rather
for us to be
here dedicated
to the great
task remaining
before us
Photo by TJJohn12

19. That from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion...
Photo by brittreints

20. that we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain...
Photo by Chicago Man

21. “...that this nation under God shall have a
new birth of freedom, and that government of
the people, by the people, for the people shall
not perish from the earth.”
Photo by thelearnedfoot_