Address at a Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia

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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

American Civil War War

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Address at a Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at a Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia." Sanitary Fair. 16 Jun. 1864, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.