Lincoln's Gettysburg Address reads as a free-form poem:
We can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we can not hallow--this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it,
far above our poor power to add or detract. . . .
From these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain--
that the 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.
19 November 1863
Go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/greensblueandgray/sets/72157633463368388/ for images of Gettysburg.
U.S. Civil War postings were journaled by William Clark Newlon as he and the Third Iowa traveled through Missouri and Tennessee. His great grandson, Chris Newlon Green, began the arduous task of transcribing Will's two wartime diaries in 1998. That work is complete and available in PDF. Other postings are Chris' ideas and experiences, WWI and Vietnam.
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