Which speech did Abraham Lincoln deliver at the dedication of a Civil War cemetery in 1863?

Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a Civil War cemetery in 1863.

Lincoln spoke on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The cemetery honored Union soldiers who died in the Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to 3, 1863.

The address was brief—usually printed at about 272 words—but it connected the Civil War to the Declaration of Independence’s principles of equality and popular government. Lincoln described the conflict as a test of whether a democratic nation could endure.

The speech is often confused with Lincoln’s other famous addresses, including the House Divided Speech and the Second Inaugural Address. The Gettysburg Address is specifically associated with the cemetery dedication and the battlefield’s Union dead.