The Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary
by Gary Keesler
Title
The Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary
Artist
Gary Keesler
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
Abraham Lincoln 1863, decoration of independence speech turned into his portrait image using only text letters from that famous speech straight from the history books pays tribute to the 150th Anniversary.
Now with the words of freedom embedded upon his face in gold and blue sky the Civil War battlefield was where President Abraham Lincoln gave this speech symbolized his presidency and the sacrifices made by Union and Confederate forces, historians and everyday Americans gather to ponder what the Gettysburg Address has meant to the nation over 150 years ago in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania November 19, 1863 and with only "few appropriate remarks", he was able to summarize the war in just ten sentences.
The Bliss Copy:
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 cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot 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.
Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863
Ever since Lincoln wrote it in 1863 this version has been the most often reproduced, notably on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
It is named after Colonel Alexander Bliss, stepson of historian George Bancroft. Bancroft asked President Lincoln for a copy to use as a fundraiser for soldiers.
However, because Lincoln wrote on both sides of the paper, the speech could not be reprinted, so Lincoln made another copy at Bliss's request.
It is the last known copy written by Lincoln and the only one signed and dated by him.
Today it is on display at the Lincoln Room of the White House.
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Barbara Chichester
CONGRATULATIONS your outstanding artwork is FEATURED in the highly viewed Art Group: MOTIVATION MEDITATION INSPIRATION! From the hundreds of pieces of artwork received daily to review and choose from, your work has been chosen because of it's excellence!
Gary Keesler replied:
Thank you Barbara, your views & comments are highly valued. Also, thank you for featuring " The Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary" on the highly viewed Art Group: MOTIVATION MEDITATION INSPIRATION...
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