American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

Today marks the 145th anniversary of one of the greatest speeches in Presidential history. Can't helped but be moved by these words every time I read them to this day.

“Fourscore 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 cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot 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.â€

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<b><font color="gold">Ernie Sands
General, Commanding, Army of Ohio

ACWGC Cabinet Member
ACWGC Records Site Administrator
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"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here". But we do remember Mr. Lincoln

Respectfully,
Lt. Gen. Gery Bastiani
III Corp
AotM CSA



"If there is a shell or bullet over there destined for us, it will find us" - General James Longstreet

A great reminder.


General Jeff Laub
Union Chief of the Army
ACWGC Cabinet Member
http://www.geocities.com/laubster22/UnionHQ/

Gentlemen:

Please do not get angry.
Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez, Musolini... also they have famous speeches...
...And we all know that if Lincoln had been defeated in the war nobody would remember him. I must add that if he should be a leader of U.S.'s enemy country in the 20th century and should defeat and his troops had committed the same crimes that Sherman and others, Mr. Lincoln had been executed by the Federal "law".
Almost nobody is clean in the wars... Maybe only R.E. Lee.

Regards:

Lt. General A. de Meré
1st Corps ANV CSA