Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is regarded as one of the most powerful and poignant speeches in American history.

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In the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, 3,000 Union soldiers prepare to face the onslaught of 60,000 advancing Confederate soldiers.