After you have read Abe Lincoln's Gettysburg Address(a primary source on Lincoln) and the short biographical piece on Lincoln wr
itten by historian Bob Frost (a secondary source on Lincoln), pretend that you are writing a research paper entitled "Abe Lincoln: The Man In that paper, you have decided to synthesize these two sources into a short summary paragraph Provide your five-sentence (no more than five well-written sentences) paragraph here
Lincoln's message in his Gettysburg Address was that the best way for the living to remember the war dead is to keep fighting for the causes that their lives were sacrificed for, rather than making speeches in their honor.
<h3>What was Abraham Lincoln's message in "The Gettysburg Address"? </h3>
In 1863, at the dedication and consecration of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address.
Lincoln focusses his address on the ongoing Civil War, referencing the country's creation "four score and seven years ago" before stating that the conflict is an effort to maintain the country's status as a republic (and possibly the existence of America itself).
Lincoln explains that the dead have already consecrated the battlefield via their deeds, not them (the living) who cannot do so with their words.
Lincoln argues that it is the responsibility of the living to carry on the battle started by the dead so that "these dead shall not have perished in vain" and so that the government "of the people, by the people, for the people shall not disappear from the earth."
