Lincoln’s Legacy: Honoring the Union through Hope and Unity
Words: 615 Pages: 2 4951"Lincoln honors the union dead and reminds the listeners of the purpose of the soldier’s sacrifices, which were: equality, freedom, and national unity. The last lines of Lincoln’s speech stood out to me the most while I was reading it. These lines read, “That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—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 […]