The Gettysburg Address Mystery Cache
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The container cannot be found at the listed coordinates. You must read the address and solve for the final location, which is less than two miles away. Nothing physically at the listed or final coordinates have any connection to the Civil War or to the Gettysburg Address.
The Gettysburg Address was delivered by President Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This event occurred four and one half months after the Union army defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Gettysburg. The July 1–3 battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is described as the turning point in the war. Union Major General George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North.
This month marks the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's historic address.
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 battle-field 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.
The container can be found here:
N 34 26.1/1/8/2 2/3/5/1 3/4/7/2
W 085 4 C/E/L/C.3/2/2/1 0 1/1/8/1
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