This Day in History: November 19

(WKYT) - In the lead-up to America turning 250 years old, we are looking back every day at ‘This Day In History.’

On this date on 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the “Gettysburg Address.”

At the dedication of a military cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Lincoln’s few words reminded the nation why the Civil War had to be fought and won.

Just four months earlier, the Battle of Gettysburg was a critical turning point.

Lincoln’s address, lasting only minutes, reaffirmed the war as a struggle for freedom and equality for all, ensuring that quote --“government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”