Address by President Lincoln - Jefferson Barracks Cemetery - Lemay, MO - Abraham Lincoln on Waymarking.com

County of plaque: St. Louis County
Location of plaque: Jefferson Blvd. & Grant Dr., behind visitors center, Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay
Plaque erected by: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Erected: 2000

This plaque, like many others in National Cemeteries, is to honor the Civil War dead buried in the cemetery. Honor them as Lincoln did with the dedication of Gettysburg National Cemetery.
The plaque is a bronze plaque painted black, with the raised letters painted white. It is mounted with 4 bolts on the parking lot side wall of the visitors center at the main entrance to the huge National Cemetery.

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Plaque text:

Address by President Lincoln
at the dedication of
THE GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY
November 19, 1863 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.

Location Type: Historic Marker Property Type: Public Date of Event: November 19, 1863 Location Notes: Parking lot behind visitors center, and walk to main entrance, plaque is on the wall to your left. URL for Additional Information: [Web Link]

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