Abraham Lincoln
speaker
109 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Abraham Lincoln’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children.
My home.
I have therefore resigned my commission in the army and
And save in defense of my native state, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed.
I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword.
Rusling later wrote that Lincoln told them, In the pinch of the campaign up there.
When everybody seemed panic stricken.
And nobody could tell what was going to happen.
Oppressed by the gravity of our affairs, I went into my room one day and locked the door.
and got down on my knees before Almighty God.
and prayed to him mightily for victory at Gettysburg.
I told him that this was his war, and our cause his cause, but that we couldn't stand another Fredericksburg or Chancellorsville.
And I then and there made a solemn vow to Almighty God that if he would stand by our boys at Gettysburg,
I would stand by him.
And he did.
And I will.
And after that, I don't know how it was, and I can't explain it, but soon a sweet comfort crept into my soul that things would go all right at Gettysburg.
No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.
This war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket.
Grant noted, I myself saw our men taking bread from their haversacks and giving it to the enemy they had so recently been engaged in starving out.
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