Dover Township in Higginsville in Lafayette County, Missouri — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)

Address by President Abraham Lincoln

November 19, 1863

Address by Abraham Lincoln Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, July 5, 2025

1. Address by Abraham Lincoln Marker

Inscription.

Address by President Abraham Lincoln. November 19, 1863. , 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 end 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 end proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this
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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.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil. A significant historical date for this entry is November 19, 1863.

Location. 39° 5.899′ N, 93° 44.023′ W. Memorial is in Higginsville, Missouri, in Lafayette County. It is in Dover Township. It can be reached from the intersection of Business Missouri

Address by Abraham Lincoln Marker at the Missouri Veterans Memorial Cemetery chapel image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, July 5, 2025

2. Address by Abraham Lincoln Marker at the Missouri Veterans Memorial Cemetery chapel

Route 13/20 and Long Grove Road, on the right when traveling west. The marker is on the far side of the chapel at Missouri Veterans Cemetery. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 20109 Business Hwy 13, Higginsville MO 64037, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Missouri River Corridor.

It is also in the American Midwest,

in the Lewis & Clark Corridor,

in the Corn Belt,

and on the Santa Fe Trail Corridor.

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,

the Louisiana Purchase,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: POW * MIA (a few steps from this marker); Honoring All Who Serve (a few steps from this marker); In Honor of the Marines Who Rest Here (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Sailors and Marines Memorial (about 700 feet away); In Memory of Those Who Gave Their All (about 700 feet away); Lion of Lucerne (approx. 0.2

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miles away); Confederate States of America - Battle Flags (approx. ¼ mile away); Our Confederate Dead (approx. ¼ mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Higginsville.

Credits. This page was last revised on July 16, 2025. It was originally submitted on July 12, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 93 times since then and 15 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on July 12, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.