November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIt begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for America's identity. "The month begins with things that perish. But ultimately, November is a journey of hope, as was Lincoln's journey to Gettysburg. So too I will journey to Gettysburg in these pages. Like Lincoln's fellow citizens, I go there to assuage personal grief, to find answers; and I hope, for me as for them, that my personal sorrows become a vehicle for larger answers and a larger purpose. Lincoln addressed their grief, why not mine; he gave his generation purpose, why not ours." |
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... kind of question , which made the modern world , would also break it . November 1863 Abraham Lincoln steps off a train in Gettysburg , Pennsylvania , carrying two or three carefully prepared pages of manuscript written on White House ...
... Memphis and Los Angeles . November is personal . If it were not , Lincoln's words would not have meant much at the time . Each listener had suffered some kind of personal loss , or knew someone who had . The modern [ 5 ] NOVEMBER.
... kind young lady of refined tastes and high social standing . She had mar- ried this blacksmith for love and followed him to the new world . His brother Karl will never rest in that family plot . He will return from the war alive , but ...
... kind of elegy blooms in sorrow from the soil of the past ; its beauty remains for tomorrow . November is nature's elegy . Let the month itself stand for grief and faith , a gray month of blank sky and cold winds , beginning in remem ...
... kind . Whereupon , not feeling like taking any jaw from a Yank officer , one of the young fellows pulled his trigger . The man in blue fell across the steps . The young Rebel who shot him had somehow crossed an invisible line between ...
Contents
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Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
NOVEMBER 4 | 41 |
NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
NOVEMBER 9 | 73 |
NOVEMBER 14 | 84 |
NOVEMBER 15 | 96 |
NOVEMBER 16 | 106 |
NOVEMBER 22 | 182 |
NOVEMBER 23 | 193 |
NOVEMBER 25 | 213 |
NOVEMBER 26 | 228 |
NOVEMBER 27 | 251 |
NOVEMBER 29 | 266 |
NOVEMBER 30 | 273 |
Modernism and Postmodernism | 285 |
NOVEMBER 17 | 119 |
The Gettysburg Address | 131 |
NOVEMBER 20 | 162 |
NOVEMBER 21 | 171 |
Elegy Written in a Country ChurchYard | 298 |
Notes on the Sources | 305 |