七月二十二日，参观葛底斯堡
葛底斯堡是位于美国宾夕法尼亚州南部的一座小镇。1863年7月初联邦政府的北军与李将军率领的南军在此鏖战三昼夜，北军最终击溃南军，赢得胜利，扭转了整个南北战争的战局。这是北美大陆历史上规模最大、伤亡最惨重的一场战斗。战争结束四个月后，林肯总统来到此地发表了著名的葛底斯堡演说。从此，这座原先默默无闻的小镇成了一座历史名镇。
The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
19 November 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..
