Near Black Mountain in Buncombe County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

Address by President Abraham Lincoln

November 19, 1863

Photographed by Mark Parker, August 29, 2025

1. Address by President 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. 35° 36.685′ N, 82° 21.33′ W. Memorial is near Black Mountain, North Carolina, in Buncombe County. It can be reached from Old U.S. 70 west of Pine Circle, on the right when traveling

Address by President Abraham Lincoln Marker at the Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, August 29, 2025

2. Address by President Abraham Lincoln Marker at the Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery

west. The marker is on the southeast side of the chapel/office building overlooking the cemetery. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 962 Old US Hwy 70, Black Mountain NC 28711, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Mountains and in Greater Asheville.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Southern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the original Cherokee Nation,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Black Mountain College (approx. 1.2 miles away); Geodesic Domes (approx. 1½ miles away); André Michaux (approx. 1.9 miles away); Multigenerational Mountain Musicians (approx. 1.9 miles away); Granulitic Gneiss (approx. 2 miles away); Migmatitic Gneiss (approx.

Address by President Abraham Lincoln Marker at the cemetery chapel/office image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, August 29, 2025

3. Address by President Abraham Lincoln Marker at the cemetery chapel/office

2 miles away); Amphibolite (approx. 2 miles away); Mylonitic Gneiss (approx. 2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Black Mountain.

Credits. This page was last revised on October 1, 2025. It was originally submitted on September 12, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 69 times since then and 29 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on September 12, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. • J. Makali Bruton was the editor who published this page.