The Gettysburg Address or the Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln is one of the most famous speeches in the history of the United States of America. The President delivered it on November 19, 1863 at the opening of the National Soldiers' Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The carefully composed address, which was supposed to be just one of the items on the program of this day, went down in the history of the country as one of the greatest speeches in which nationally significant topics were touched upon. The speech lasted just over two minutes and consisted of 272 words. In it, the President addressed the principles of equality proclaimed once in the Declaration of Independence, and assessed the Civil War in a new way: as a struggle for the preservation of the United States, which will be accompanied by a "new birth of freedom", designed to provide true equality to all citizens and preserve the union of states as a single state in which all citizens will be equal.