. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . April 15, 1865, when the news came that thePresident had been shot the night before. In a letter he says: Motherprepared breakfast—and other meals afterward—as usual; but not amouthful was eaten all day by either of us. We each drank half a cupof coffee; that was all. Little was said. We got every newspaper morn-ing and evening, and the frequent extras of that period, and passed themsilently to each other. Though his Drum-Taps was already print-ing, he began at once his Lincoln dirge, When Lilacs Last in theDoor-Yard Bloomd, and th
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . April 15, 1865, when the news came that thePresident had been shot the night before. In a letter he says: Motherprepared breakfast—and other meals afterward—as usual; but not amouthful was eaten all day by either of us. We each drank half a cupof coffee; that was all. Little was said. We got every newspaper morn-ing and evening, and the frequent extras of that period, and passed themsilently to each other. Though his Drum-Taps was already print-ing, he began at once his Lincoln dirge, When Lilacs Last in theDoor-Yard Bloomd, and the shorter lyric here reprinted. O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; [254] ^T— mm /^|gg^ i§ti$8§ltltilffi r=5<H %- siiiifBitf l|§ji§§|ii Z==5§1 iHBll^ % 4S^w^ feE —^sSS^i^P^ sJSSlSliB Siis^zi?tii WHILE LINCOLN SPOKE AT GETTYSBURG, NOVEMBER 19, 1863. DURING THE FAMOUS ADDRESS IN DEDICATION OF THE CEMETERY The most important American address is brief: Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continenta new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged ina great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on agreat battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gavetheir lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, wccannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we sayhere, but it can ne
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