At the beginning of the Civil War president Abraham Lincoln was primarily concerned with preserving the Union and reuniting the United States. However, after his reading of the Gettysburg address the more prominent concern came to be the freeing of slaves from the South. His Gettysburg address speech was only about three minutes long it was more affective and more undying than the speech made by Everett's long-forgotten two-hour oration. Lincoln's speech is very chronological, …showed first 75 words of 405 total…

…showed last 75 words of 405 total…boys and girls all over America on a daily basis, and is still today one of the most famous presidential speeches of all time. Now we can look back and see what an impact this great president and wonderful speech did to help our country when it was in desperate need. You never know, if President Lincoln was never president do you know where our country, if we would even have one, would be today?