Which speech did Abraham Lincoln deliver at the dedication of a Pennsylvania soldiers’ cemetery in 1863?

The speech Abraham Lincoln delivered at the dedication of a Pennsylvania soldiers’ cemetery in 1863 was the Gettysburg Address.

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

The address followed a much longer speech by Edward Everett, the principal orator at the ceremony. Lincoln’s remarks were brief, but they connected the Civil War to the founding ideals of equality and self-government.

The speech is widely remembered for its opening reference to a nation conceived in liberty and its closing call for government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It is sometimes mistakenly treated as Lincoln’s main Gettysburg speech; Everett actually delivered the event’s lengthy featured oration.