Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln

Remembering a Deceased American Hero, As He Remembered Others

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to this proposition that all men are created equal.”

On the eve of a great national tragedy, the assassination of our 16th national President, Abraham Lincoln, we choose to honor him, by recalling his memory and legacy through a dedication speech given two years ago at Gettysburg through which he shared his vision for this nation’s future and the end of our worst war.

July 1-3, 1863, the Union’s Army of the Potomac and the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia met at the deceivingly unimportant little town of Gettysburg for a battle which would become the bloodiest in U.S. history, where the mere stench of the thousands of deceased soldiers was enough to make the surrounding towns people violently ill in the weeks following this great American travesty.

David Wills, a prominent attorney of the region, purchased 17 acres of Pennsylvanian land for a cemetery with which he planned to dedicate to the honorable soldiers who lost their lives that