Read the excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address.
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.
What is Lincoln's purpose in the excerpt?
Oto thank the families of soldiers for their support
to describe the varied lives of fallen soldiers
to encourage young citizens to enlist in the military
Oto rally emotional support for a unified country