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In the book I think that Ada feels emotionally attached to her foot. She was taught that her foot was ugly because her mom always told her it was, and when your taught something at a young age it usually sticks with you. Ada is also annoyed and dissapointed when she finds out that her foot will never be fixed and she will always stay the way she is always having her moms voice in her head saying your ugly, and rubbish, and no one will ever want you.

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An idea I had about Flashback Four is that all of the flashback four, Julia, Luke, David and Isabel, are very curious, adventurous, brave, determined and confident. I feel they go out of harms way to do something.
Another idea of mine is,  that Mrs. Z, will help everyone in the Flashback Four, I think this because, she is giving them an amazing them an amazing experience, and also, is giving them a chance to really see what happened in the past, and even, from their knowledge, maybe get them a better education. Isabelle, in particular, because her family, isn't doing too well financially. Lastly, the experience, will really help all of them to succeed more, and maybe make them amazing in history.
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One thing that I think motivates Y'tin is that he wants his elephants to be free from being in the captured village . This motivates Y'tin because he wants to make it so that the elephants can get the thing that is very desirable in this time period freedom. This motivation makes it so that it is easy for Y'tin to feel brave and think about the sacrifice he is making to the people of his village that he is risking their lives for an elephant
One lesson that Y'tin learns along his hard journey that even when it is hard to do the right thing you can never stop trying. Y'tin learns this when he is forced to do things for the north Vietnamese soldiers. He then realizes that they are making him do the wrong thing and that doing the right things is always what makes things peacful.

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An idea I had about Ranger In Time- Long Road To Freedom, was when the Bradley´s thought about growing more wheat than tobacco because they probably thought that would get them more money off of wheat. Another idea I had was why William likes Sarah the most but might sell her brother Jesse away, because I you like someone more than someone else and that someone else was their sibling, would you make them sad or happy? And by they way William didn´t look at Sarah when he said he is probably not going to give her brother away made Sarah think of her mother and how she said, ¨eyes told the truth even when mouths were lying.¨
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I think Ada feels sad when sad, defeated and disappointed when the doctor told her she would never have a normal foot. After a while she had to accept that but it stuck with her that she would be different her whole life. Her old mom always treated her badly because of her foot. She would not let her go outside or make friends, instead she had to wait on her mom. Now all those memories will trigger  emotions that make her upset and sad.

I also think that Jamie wants to help Ada but some things he can’t do like fix her foot. Ada appreciates the help Jamie gives her, she would not be where she was now without him. When they were back in England without Jamie Ada wouldn’t of eaten because the mom never gave Ada food. She was grateful for Jamie and what he has done for her.

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Ada's struggles with her foot a lot in the story. I think that it is a problem because she keeps on wanted to be able to be like a normal kid and wear two shoes on each foot,but she cant because of the I feel bad for her because Susan and Miss.Smith are afraid to let her get the surgery because it cost a lot of money. I also think that they do not want Ada to get the surgery because they are trying to teach her that it does not matter what you look like in the outside it is how you are on the inside but Ada is trying to tell then that she understands that it is just that her footy hurts almost every time that she moves. Before she got the crutches she could barley even walk so If I were her I would be grateful that I can now walk instead of crawl.  One lesson that Ada learned is that you should except who you are and not judge your self by how you look. Ada's real Mam used to judge Ada on her foot and make her do things that she did not want to do. But now she is so much more grateful.

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Ranger has been trained as a search-and-rescue dog, but can’t officially pass the test because he’s always getting distracted by squirrels during exercises. One day, he finds a mysterious first aid kit in the garden and is transported to the year 1850, where he meets a young boy named Sam Abbott. Sam’s family is migrating west on the Oregon Trail, and soon after Ranger arrives he helps the boy save his little sister. Ranger thinks his job is done, but the Oregon Trail can be dangerous, and the Abbotts need Ranger’s help more than they realize and ranger learned that he can help people without being a aid dog

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One of my ideas is, that the Flashback Four is very honest. They won't lie, even about their "time travel" ordeal. They are especially honest, when Abe Lincoln and his son visit the Flashback Four in prison. They were truthful about trying to get the shoot -- camera shot, not gun shot, and how they came from the future. They all told Lincoln, knowing that they could've gotten away with a lie, because he had no idea what they were talking about. That brings up a little issue about why they were in jail. Luke was trying to get the photo shot of Lincoln giving the Gettysburg address, and some officers came and took them away, even though they told the officers that, they were trying to get a photo shot. I think the Flashback Four learned that, honesty is the best policy. I think that it was important that they were truthful, one because if they had lied, they may have gotten judged, and even maybe, been in jail for a lot longer. Second of all, they really learned a lesson, that will make them more successful in life socially.

Another idea I have is, that they felt hopeless, when they were in prison. I feel like they felt hopeless, because they were being treated horribly, by the prison guard. This was a big obstacle, that could have stopped them from getting to the "future", and since they got back, potentially saving their life! Abe Lincoln saved their life. A lesson that I think they learned, is that, they always have to think about their actions, more deeply, especially around people that think something is really bad when it's not.

Learn about how honest Abe Lincoln was, just like the Flashback Four:

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When The doctor told Ada that her Foot would never be healed, she felt defeated. I think hat she feels defeated now, because she was getting help, and people were not discriminating her for her foot. She was thought of as average for once, without being called out for her foot. She thought that if she could be "normal" Than her foot can to. But she wouldn't have thought the same way if she still lived with her mom. Her mom never thought of her as "normal"  she thought of her as "ugly" and "different". I feel like if her mom sent her to the doctors, and they told her that her foot will always be "different" she would not feel so defeated. Why? Well, since her mom thought of her as nothing else but a cripple. But when she was excepted, she gave her hopes up. And that is what made her so down. I feel that if she can just know that she can be normal without having a perfect foot, then she would be okay with this. But with all the discrimination her  mother has given her, she thinks that she is only different, but does not realize that not every one is perfect right away. So really, the lesson learned in this book is that no one is perfect.

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One Idea I have about the cause of Y'Tin's feelings is that he has been alone for a week and being isolated for a week makes you have to catch up on the current issues and refresh your social skills awards others and yourself. Y'Tin is trying to catch up on everything as fast as possible and that is making him a little exasperated.
I also feel that the whole idea about crossing the line is very true and a great theme for the story because it is emphasized during times of war.
I feel that Lady coming back at the end was kind of a happy ending type scenario at the moment

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Ranger In Time is about a dog who went to a camp where rescue dogs are trained, but he could not gt through because during his drills he kept getting caught up with the Squirrels.One day when he goes to a garden he finds a health kit that magically sent to the year 1850, where he finds a boy named
Sam Abbott. He and his family are on the Oregon Trail because they are going West. When he meets the family he help's save Sam's little sister. They decide to go together, but when they walk on the Oregon Trail there is way more danger ahead. In this story Ranger shows Courage and Bravery by helping Sam's family keep safe, while traveling West on the Oregon Trail. Ranger learns that helping people come 1st.

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The Oregon Trail was a 2,000-mile route to the West for thousands of settlers in 19th Century America. The Trail ran through what is now Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon.

The idea of reaching the West Coast began soon after Thomas Jefferson announced the Louisiana Purchase, in 1803, and commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to chart the course of the territory through to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery spent the better part of the next three years getting there and back again, and their reports emboldened many others to travel westward, sometimes for good. An 1810 expedition financed by famed furrier John Jacob Astor mapped out a slightly different route west.

After the War of 1812, the British presence on what is now the western part of the Oregon Trail increased, mainly through the efforts of the Hudson's Bay Company. So did the number of Americans traveling west, if more gradually. The first large wave of settlers set out in 1836, and numbers increased during the next few decades, in nearly inverse proportion to the decline of fur trading, as markets for new goods found more favor. Among the first organized group of settlers were the Peoria Party, named after the city from which they set out, Peoria, Ill. Led by Thomas J. Farnham, they carried a flag with the motto "Oregon or the Grave" and traveled most of the Oregon Trail, finally reaching the West Coast. More than 100 pioneers, led by Elijah White, set out in 1842, from Elm Grove, Mo.; not all of this group made it. In 1843 alone, up to 1,000 settlers left their homes for new living quarters in Oregon. This came to be known as the "Great Migration of 1843."

The U.S. Government sponsored more than just Lewis & Clark. Explorers like Captain Benjamin Bonneville, John C. Frémont, and Kit Carson ranged far and wide and wrote about their experiences.

The Oregon Trail wasn't an unbroken dirt road running direct from one place to the next; rather, it was a series of paths, trails, and wagon roads. Technically, the Trail wound from Independence, Mo., to Oregon City. As traffic on the Trail increased, other towns on the route became starting points; among these were the Kansas towns of Atchison and Leavenworth, the Missouri towns of St. Joseph and Weston; and the Nebraska town of Omaha.

Other well-known settler trails were the Bozeman Trail, California Trail, Chisholm Trail, Mormon Trail, and Santa Fe Trail. The longest and most popular, however, was the Oregon Trail.

The trails generally followed the Platte River and other waterways, passing through river valleys to enable access to fresh water and to grass for the animals doing the heavy lifting. Travelers were often in need of fire-burning materials. These often included trees, brush, abandoned wagons, and even animal droppings (the ever-popular "buffalo chips").

Settlers traveled west along the Oregon Trail using combinations of walking or riding horses, and carrying supplies and necessities in covered wagons, known as prairie schooners, which were pulled by anywhere from 4 to 10 oxen or mules. (Horses were used to pull the wagons only in later years.) The well-known Conestoga wagons were, for the most part, too large and unwieldy for the arduous Oregon Trail, so settlers used prairie schooners instead. These wagons were typically 11 feet long, feet wide, and feet high and featured cotton covers treated with linseed oil, in an attempt to keep out dust, rain, and wind. Wheels were made of iron-rimmed wood and were 40-50 inches in diameter. The wagons were, for the most part, much too bumpy to ride in, despite popular artwork to the contrary.

Travelers did not go west in straight lines. They spread out along the prairies and through the valleys, mainly to cut down on dust inhalation. They did resort to single file through narrow passes, however.

Journeys to Oregon commonly took four or five months. Travelers took lots of food, stored in watertight containers or carried in packs. Some travelers traded what they carried for other types of food grown by people along the way. Some travelers took chickens, cows, and pigs with them, to use as food. Cooking was done over campfires. Not all meals were cooked. Travelers carried water, sometimes lots of it, but also depended on getting water along the way. (For this reason, a good part of the Oregon Trail was along waterways.)

Travelers generally brought several sets of clothes, most importantly multiple sets of boots, and spare leather and threads and a few hand tools, to repair or replace clothing. Among the possessions kits were soap, washboards, and tubs, for cleaning the clothes.

The common sleeping arrangement was on thin bedrolls, on the ground, inside tents (or under the night sky if the weather was good). Pregnant or infirm travelers or very young children sometimes slept on feather beds, inside wagons. Sleeping inside a wagon was not unheard of for otherwise healthy travelers as well.

Conditions could be rough, and travelers commonly carried all manner of tools, including axes, shovels, hoes, hammers, saws, hatchets, picks, and crow bars.

Sharing was essential for many travelers. Pooling of resources, including money, was quite common. Money was also essential to replace or obtain things broken or forgotten.

With lots of time on their hands, travelers on the Oregon Trail found comfort in books, not just trail guides but as well the Bible and other popular publications. They also wrote letters, to drop at forts or posts along the way.

For the most part, expendable items got left behind. Some travelers filled needs by picking up items discarded by previous travelers; others returned home with discards, selling them for a profit.

Dangers were not unknown on the Oregon Trail. travelers encountered unfamiliar wildlife and sometimes hostile humans. Weather could be capricious, and supplies often ran low. Some mothers died in childbirth. Some young children didn't survive the ardors of the trip. Many travelers died, although exact figures are still not known, primarily because those who died along the way were usually buried in unmarked graves, to prevent looting.

Disease was also common. Travelers' diets were sometimes low in fresh fruits and vegetables; and during the four-month trip, some travelers suffered from scurvy because of a lack of vitamin C. Other diseases, such as cholera, were familiar killers.

One of the last stops on the journey west was Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia River. For a time, John McLoughlin was in charge at this fort. He helped so many settlers reach new homesteads that he became known as the "Father of Oregon." Other Hudson's Bay Company outposts were Fort Boise and Fort Nez Perce, both of which were quite happy to sell supplies to Oregon Trail pioneers.

Travelers were still using the Oregon Trail while the Civil War was raging, but the advent of a railroad across Panama, allowing for ship-then-rail-then-ship-again travel, and then another, more famous railroad across the continental United States gave travelers much faster alternatives. The arrival of the automobile all but closed the Trail, with some state federal and state highways literally paving over parts of the Trail.

The Oregon Trail didn't just disappear one day. Its use declined gradually. Signs of it can still be seen today, as can some wagon wheel tracks. It is now a National Historic Trail, with designating markers in several states.

Many travelers didn't make it all the way to the West Coast, preferring to set up homestead along the way. This, in combination, with an influx of new settlers in Oregon and California, helped push the boundaries of the United States ever westward.

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report this ad The Oregon Trail was a 2,000-mile route to the West for thousands of settlers in 19th Century America. The Trail ran through what is now Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon.

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One idea that I have is that Luke and David were very courageous and wouldn't give up to get the camera to work. This was a big struggle but they had motivation. Their motivation was that they promised Ms. Z they would have a picture of Abraham Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address. If they didn't do this Ms. Z would be flabbergasted. This was a big issue for them that they had to overcome.
One issue is that the four of them don't fit in. This is a big issue/struggle. I mean Ms. Z did show them a list of slang words from the time period but that only helped a little bit. But word choice is also a crucial part of fitting in. I mean if a kid went into our school saying their feeling melancholy or flabbergasted we would not understand. I think some of the people they met got a little bit suspicious about them. This happened especially when Isabella hands Tad Lincoln (Abraham Lincolns son) a five dollar bill that had his dad on it. Of course at that time Abe Lincoln was not on the fie dollar bill.

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In the story one of Luke and Sadie faced no problems or issues yet. But on the other hand, Sarah and Jesse are facing some big problems, because they are in the time of slavery. For example Sarah is facing a problem with trying to convince Jesse to run away, or sneak away. She wants to convince her brother to run away because she thinks he might get sold this scenario adds up because Jesse is little and young which makes him weak, so Mr. Bradley thinks it would be smart to sell him. One thing that motivated Jesse in the book was the idea of Ranger running away with him. Jesse wasn't convinced that running away instead of getting sold was what he wanted to do but he seemed to really be liking Ranger so if Ranger ran away with him, it would motivate him and show him that he should run away. This is what his older sister Sarah was thinking.https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=vedios+on+the+book+a+ranger+in+time+long+road+to+freedom&&view=detail&mid=29591278E8EFF5655DE629591278E8EFF5655DE6&FORM=VRDGAR

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One internal struggle that Y'Tin has is that he doesn't recognize many people in the camp. In his mind that maybe means more than half of the village was killed, or maybe he's just dreaming. And if more people in his village are killed, the more that Y'Tin could potentially become enraged, and the harder it gets for him to contain that rage. That leads to an internal conflict of trying to contain that anger, and the anger trying to escape from Y'Tin. If he let's the rage escape he will create a physical conflict within Y'Tin's family and Y'Tin's friends. An idea I have about this conflict is that Y'Tin just wants everything to be fine, but in reality it's not. And Y'Tin accepts that, but whenever it happens directly to him or to other people in his tribe, he can't accept it. That is why I think this internal conflict and confusion is a big factor in Y'Tin's views on the war and his views on North Vietnam. But this anger towards the war and North Vietnam is not helping him. It's getting in the way of what he really needs to do, which is to survive.

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Something that Y'Tin is struggling about is that he is so lonely in the camp and he is very unstable. He is very brave and motivated. One thing that motivates him is his Elephants his elephants have freedom he wants to be like them and he will try to get to freedom but one mistake that he made was going on the adventure but that didn't stop him because he still is brave enough and motivated to keep trying and get to freedom.

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Ranger in time Oregon Trail is about a dog who is really good at finding people and his owners luke and his father are training him to get better at finding people. So the father always give Ranger something to smell and he tells him to go find it and he does whenever he comes back with the thing he found the father would say good boy. But Ranger is always getting distracted by squirrels. One day he found something in the ground and he was bringing it to Luke when then a light in the box gets brighter and brighter then something happened to him he looked around he saw horses, wagons and a lot of people wearing fancy clothes. He then meets a kid named Sam and he is trying to find someone so Ranger helps him so then he goes places with Sam and does a bunch of crazy things but he is still looking for Luke. At the end Ranger realizes that helping people comes first.

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One thing Y'tin is struggling about is that he has to stay in the camp. He can't be free and run around happily like his elephants.  He wants to be free. He makes the best of what he has but he still wants to be free.  Y'tin feels angry to the war because he wants to be free but can't because of the war. If Y'tin can just stop the war he would have done a long time ago.
One thing that motivates Y'tin is his elephants if Y'tin didn't have his elephants he wouldn't have the feelings he is having. The feelings of wanting to be free and wanting to be with other people (animals).

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One of the flashback four's issues is that they do not fit into the time period. Even though Miss.Z told them the slang of the time and helped with their clothes, they still stood out.  One of the reasons they stood out is because of their language, and language and word choice is a key part to fitting in. If some kid came to our school and started using words like "Indubitably" or "Desultory", I wouldn't really know what he or she was talking about, and i would think that they were a little odd. Basically the same thing happened here with the flashback four.

A lesson that they all learned is to be honest all of the time, because when the officers came to take them away when they were taking the photo, they were honest and just said that they were trying to take one. They were also honest when Lincoln and his son came up to them and confronted them.

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Soldiers National Cemetery

&copy Abraham Lincoln Online

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863

On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner referred to the most famous speech ever given by President Abraham Lincoln. In his eulogy on the slain president, he called the Gettysburg Address a "monumental act." He said Lincoln was mistaken that "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here." Rather, the Bostonian remarked, "The world noted at once what he said, and will never cease to remember it. The battle itself was less important than the speech."

There are five known copies of the speech in Lincoln's handwriting, each with a slightly different text, and named for the people who first received them: Nicolay, Hay, Everett, Bancroft and Bliss. Two copies apparently were written before delivering the speech, one of which probably was the reading copy. The remaining ones were produced months later for soldier benefit events. Despite widely-circulated stories to the contrary, the president did not dash off a copy aboard a train to Gettysburg. Lincoln carefully prepared his major speeches in advance; his steady, even script in every manuscript is consistent with a firm writing surface, not the notoriously bumpy Civil War-era trains. Additional versions of the speech appeared in newspapers of the era, feeding modern-day confusion about the authoritative text.

Bliss Copy

Ever since Lincoln wrote it in 1864, this version has been the most often reproduced, notably on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. It is named after Colonel Alexander Bliss, stepson of historian George Bancroft. Bancroft asked President Lincoln for a copy to use as a fundraiser for soldiers (see "Bancroft Copy" below). However, because Lincoln wrote on both sides of the paper, the speech could not be reprinted, so Lincoln made another copy at Bliss's request. It is the last known copy written by Lincoln and the only one signed and dated by him. Today it is on display at the Lincoln Room of the White House.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Nicolay Copy
Named for John G. Nicolay, President Lincoln's personal secretary, this is considered the "first draft" of the speech, begun in Washington on White house stationery. The second page is writen on different paper stock, indicating it was finished in Gettysburg before the cemetery dedication began. Lincoln gave this draft to Nicolay, who went to Gettysburg with Lincoln and witnessed the speech. The Library of Congress owns this manuscript.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate we can not consecrate we can not hallow, this ground The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.

It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Hay Copy
Believed to be the second draft of the speech, President Lincoln gave this copy to John Hay, a White House assistant. Hay accompanied Lincoln to Gettysburg and briefly referred to the speech in his diary: "the President, in a fine, free way, with more grace than is his wont, said his half dozen words of consecration." The Hay copy, which includes Lincoln's handwritten changes, also is owned by the Library of Congress.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Everett Copy
Edward Everett, the chief speaker at the Gettysburg cemetery dedication, clearly admired Lincoln's remarks and wrote to him the next day saying, "I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes." In 1864 Everett asked Lincoln for a copy of the speech to benefit Union soldiers, making it the third manuscript copy. Eventually the state of Illinois acquired it, where it's preserved at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here, have, thus far, so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Bancroft Copy
As noted above, historian George Bancroft asked President Lincoln for a copy to use as a fundraiser for soldiers. When Lincoln sent his copy on February 29, 1864, he used both sides of the paper, rendering the manuscript useless for lithographic engraving. So Bancroft kept this copy and Lincoln had to produce an additional one (Bliss Copy). The Bancroft copy is now owned by Cornell University.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Source for all versions: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler and others.

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Soldiers National Cemetery &copy Abraham Lincoln Online Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863 On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner referred to the most famous speech ever given by President Abraham Lincoln. In his eulogy on the slain president, he called the Gettysburg Address a "monumental act."

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