Kilmichael in Montgomery County, Mississippi — The American South (East South Central)

Address by President Abraham Lincoln

November 19, 1863

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, July 17, 2023

1. Address by President Abraham Lincoln Marker

Inscription.

Address by President Abraham Lincoln. 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 battle-field 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 thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us , that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion , 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 not perish from the earth. , , , , , . President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, an early national cemetery for the Civil War dead. Starting in 1909, a date coinciding with the centennial of Lincoln's birth, tablets with these famed words were first cast for installation in the country's national cemeteries to assure that visitors never forget the honored dead and why they gave their lives.

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 battle-field 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 thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall

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have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. —————President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, an early national cemetery for the Civil War dead. Starting in 1909, a date coinciding with the centennial of Lincoln's birth, tablets with these famed words were first cast for installation in the country's national cemeteries to assure that visitors never forget the honored dead and why they gave their lives.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the Former U.S. Presidents: #16 Abraham Lincoln, and the National Cemeteries series lists.

Location. 33° 26.815′ N, 89° 33.516′ W. Memorial is in Kilmichael, Mississippi, in Montgomery County. It can be reached from the intersection of U.S. 82 and Legion Road, on the right when traveling west. Marker is mounted on the south/front side of the North Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery Visitor Center building. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 2 Legion Road, Kilmichael MS 39747, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Central Mississippi. It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

and in the Mississippi Delta.

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 the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least

North Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery Visitor Center image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, July 17, 2023

2. North Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery Visitor Center

(marker is mounted on left side of entrance)

8 other markers are within 11 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: The Mississippi Carillon (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Kilmichael: B.B. King's Roots (approx. ¾ mile away); Applewhite Cemetery (approx. 8½ miles away); The "Final Spike" (approx. 10.1 miles away); Montgomery County Confederate Monument (approx. 10.1 miles away); Winona Jail Site (approx. 10.2 miles away); Immanuel Episcopal Church (approx. 10.4 miles away); Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway (approx. 10.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Kilmichael.

Another marker is no longer nearby. E.H. Sumners Foundation (was approx. 7.1 miles away but has been confirmed missing).

Also see . . . Gettysburg Address. Excerpt:

Lincoln's carefully crafted but brief address, which was not even scheduled as the day's primary speech, came to be seen as one of the greatest and most influential statements on the American national purpose. It remains one of the best known speeches in American history.

(Submitted on July 21, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

North Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, July 17, 2023

3. North Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery

(entrance on north side of US Highway 82)

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, July 17, 2023

4. North Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery

(Visitor Center is obscured by trees in the left background)

Credits. This page was last revised on November 16, 2024. It was originally submitted on July 18, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 191 times since then and 13 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on July 20, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. 2, 3, 4. submitted on July 21, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.