Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address was a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.

Background
One of the most quoted speeches in United States history, it was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.

Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant. Lincoln referred to the events of the Civil War and described the ceremony at Gettysburg as an opportunity not only to consecrate the grounds of a cemetery, but also to dedicate the living to the struggle to ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".

By 2277, the Gettysburg Address is found in Rivet City preserved by the Capitol Preservation Society. The text of the Gettysburg Address can be seen, in it entirety, inscribed on the south wall of the Lincoln Memorial.

Related quests

 * Stealing Independence either sold to Leroy Walker or Hannibal Hamlin.

Appearances
The Gettysburg Address appears only in Fallout 3