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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon 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 are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of 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 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 that they have thus far so nobly carried on. 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 the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain--that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Peach Orchard, where the line bends sharply back. Peach trees are replanted here as the old ones fall. The
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Wheat Field is alongside, now grass-grown. Beyond it the surface goes down among the crags and broken stones of the
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Devil's Den, a ravine through which flows a stream, coming from the orchard and wheat field, and separating them from the rocky
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Round Tops, the sandstone cliffs of the
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Little Round Top rising high above the ravine. The fields sloping to the stream above the Den are known as the
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Valley of Death. Among these rocks there are many monuments, made of the boulders that are so numerous. A toilsome path mounts the
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Big Round Top beyond, and an Observatory on the summit gives a good view over almost the entire battlefield. This summit, more than three miles south of Gettysburg, has tall timber, preserved as it was in the battle. There are cannon surmounting the
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Round Tops, representing the batteries in action. Across the valley to the west is the long fringe of timber that masked the Confederate position on Seminary Ridge. A picnic-ground, with access by railway, is located alongside the
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Round Tops.