Bellevue in Nashville in Davidson County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)

Address by President Abraham Lincoln

November 19, 1863

Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, May 27, 2024

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
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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.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. A significant historical date for this entry is November 19, 1863.

Location. 36° 5.234′ N, 87° 1.693′ W. Memorial is in Nashville, Tennessee, in Davidson County. It is in Bellevue. It is on McCrory Lane. The marker is located on the grounds of the Middle Tennessee State Veterans

Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, May 27, 2024

2. Address by President Abraham Lincoln Marker

Cemetery. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 7931 McCrory Ln, Nashville TN 37221, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Middle Tennessee.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in North America,

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 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps and Seabees (within shouting distance of this marker); United States Army (within shouting distance of this marker); United States Navy (within shouting distance of this marker); We will not forget (within shouting distance of this marker); Marine War Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Hidden Lake (approx. 0.2 miles away); Memorial to Submariners (approx. ¼ mile away); Fuller's Siding (approx. 0.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in

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Nashville.

Additional commentary.
1. About the plaque
While HMdb no longer includes new submissions in general of the Gettysburg Address, this profile has been published because of the interpretive text below the main Address text.

— Submitted July 7, 2024, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.

Credits. This page was last revised on July 7, 2024. It was originally submitted on June 2, 2024, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. This page has been viewed 443 times since then and 66 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on June 2, 2024, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.