gettysburg

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…helped take some of the largest step towards the world power we are now. The importance of this speech was unifying the nation, remembering the dead, and creating a literary piece of art. In the end, though he knew it would be important, it seems impossible that President Lincoln could fathom that the speech he gave on a small cemetery in Gettysburg would have such historical importance and be considered a literary masterpiece. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**