Answer: He was trying to express the pain and sorrow of the brutal civil war.
Explanation: After the fighting at Gettysburg had ended, a group of northern states funded a military cemetery for the six thousand soldiers killed in the battle. On November 19, 1863, the new cemetery was officially dedicated. In his brief remarks, since known as the Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln eloquently expressed the pain and sorrow of the brutal civil war. The prolonged conflict was testing whether a nation “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . . . can long endure.” Lincoln declared that all living Americans must ensure that the “honored dead” had not “died in vain.” In stirring words that continue to inspire, Lincoln predicted that “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
