Eastside Promise Neighborhood in San Antonio in Bexar County, Texas — The American South (West South Central)
Gettysburg Address
Photographed by James Hulse, December 24, 2020
1. Gettysburg Address Marker
at the Dedication of
the Gettysburg National Cemetery
November 19, 1863.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war. Testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. 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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, 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. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have this far go nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great tack remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
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Erected by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration.
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil.
Location. 29° 25.277′ N, 98° 28.007′ W. Memorial is in San Antonio, Texas, in Bexar County. It is in the Eastside Promise Neighborhood. It can be reached from Paso Hondo 0.2 miles west of North Palmetto. The marker is located just past the entrance of the San Antonio National Cemetery on the west side of the cemetery road. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 517 Paso Hondo, San Antonio TX 78202, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in South Texas. It is also in the American South. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the Republic of Texas, and one of the Confederate States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Folded Flag Memorial (here, next to this marker); A National Cemetery System (here, next to this marker); San Antonio National Cemetery (here, next to this marker); Bivouac of the Dead (a few steps from this marker); Captain Lee Hall (within shouting distance of this marker); Samuel S. Smith
Photographed by James Hulse, December 24, 2020
2. The Gettysburg Address Marker is on the left of the markers
Also see . . . Gettysburg Address.
Not even that day's primary speech, Lincoln's carefully crafted address came to be seen as one of the greatest and most influential statements of American national purpose. In just 271 words, beginning with the now famous phrase "Four score and seven years ago," referring to the signing of the Declaration of Independence 87 years earlier, Lincoln described the US as a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal," and represented the Civil War as a test that would determine whether such a nation, the Union sundered by the secession crisis, could endure. He extolled the sacrifices of those who died at Gettysburg in defense of those principles, and exhorted his listeners to 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 not perish from the earth.(Submitted on July 15, 2021, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.)Source: WikipediaPhotographed by James Hulse, December 24, 20203. The San Antonio National Cemetery
Credits. This page was last revised on February 2, 2023. It was originally submitted on July 15, 2021, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas. This page has been viewed 409 times since then and 23 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on July 15, 2021, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.
