The Gettysburg Address
In Our Time: History
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Civil War Battlefields and Cemeteries
Before the civil war, there is no federal space really outside washington. Southerners would not have wanted theyr dead to be buried with the union dead at that point. But increasingly it becomes just one more thing tha they complain about. They are not being buried in this national cemetery. And so the battlefields of the civil war become almost sacred sits. You now, wha stormian j winters called sights of memory, sights of mourning,. That is what the civil war battlefields and cemeteries come partly through what lincoln said at gettysburg.
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