林肯篇·七：葛底斯堡，自由的新生

背景音乐：

《挽歌》(Elegy)

《弗吉尼亚是吾乡》(My Home is Virginia)

《邦联旗帜》(Confederate Flags)

两顿牛肉 

北伐之前李将军曾激励士兵说，一旦攻入宾州每天就可以吃到两顿牛肉。

“老天爷啊，李将军” 

“老天爷啊，李将军！你就看看我们的军队和北方佬有多大差距：他们有陡坡、大炮、围墙，我们是用步兵硬碰他们的炮兵。我军要生生顶着霰弹和榴弹冲一两公里的路。古往今来还从来没有军队能做到这种事情！”

——詹姆斯·朗斯崔特，葛底斯堡战役期间

“我们的土地” 

葛底斯堡战役结束后，米德将军向林肯汇报说他已将敌人赶出了“我们的土地”。林肯批驳道：

“难道我们的将军们连这么简单的一个事实都不明白：整个国家都是‘我们的土地’？”

《葛底斯堡演说》全文 

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 battlefield 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.