Gettysburg Address Monument, Ft. Snelling – Minneapolis, MN
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N 44° 53.530 W 093° 11.079
15T E 485419 N 4970988
A plaque with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is located outside the Fort Snelling Chapel.
Waymark Code: WMRTA2
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 08/02/2016
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A profile image of Abraham Lincoln is at the top of this marker with his well-known Gettysburg Address printed below. It is located outside the Fort Snelling Chapel. The inscription reads:

1809-1865

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 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.

Presented by the Department of Minnesota Women’s Relief Corps Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic in honor of the Union Veterans of the Civil War August 1928.
Location Type: Historic Marker

Property Type: Public

Date of Event: August 1928.

Location Notes:
Outside Ft. Snelling Chapel near parking lot


URL for Additional Information: Not listed

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