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The Gettysburg Address

Lincoln feels he has failed the American people, his audience at Gettysburg, and the memory of the dead with his short address, yet the eloquence and grandeur of the 269 words became enshrined as a standard against which all speeches that came thereafter were measured.
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Clip Season 1 Episode 1 Length 05:50 Premiere: 04/03/11

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Season 1 Episodes

1865: "War Is All Hell"/"The Better Angels of Our Nature"
S1 E5 Length 2:14:38 Premiere Date 09/11/15

1864: "Valley of the Shadow of Death"/"Most Hallowed Ground"
S1 E4 Length 2:18:35 Premiere Date 09/10/15

1863: "Simply Murder"/"The Universe of Battle"
S1 E3 Length 2:34:49 Premiere Date 09/09/15

1862: "A Very Bloody Affair"/"Forever Free"
S1 E2 Length 2:21:25 Premiere Date 09/08/15

1861: "The Cause"
S1 E1 Length 1:40:58 Premiere Date 09/07/15

A House Divided
Clip Length 03:16 Premiere Date 09/06/15

Honorable Manhood
Clip Length 03:25 Premiere Date 09/06/15

Secessionitis
Clip Length 03:20 Premiere Date 09/06/15

A Thousand Mile Front
Clip Length 03:27 Premiere Date 09/06/15

Traitors and Patriots
Clip Length 13:01 Premiere Date 09/06/15

The Cause
Clip Length 03:35 Premiere Date 04/03/11

Fort Sumter
Clip Length 02:35 Premiere Date 04/03/11

1938 Newsreel
Clip Length 03:09 Premiere Date 04/03/11

The Gettysburg Address
Clip Length 05:50 Premiere Date 04/03/11

All Night Forever
Clip Length 04:30 Premiere Date 04/03/11

Ken Burns Interview | The Civil War
Preview Length 02:50 Premiere Date 04/03/11

Ken Burns Interview | Shelby Foote
Preview Length 03:36 Premiere Date 04/03/11

Ken Burns Interview | Music
Preview Length 02:26 Premiere Date 04/03/11

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