The Gettysburg Address is an item mentioned in Fallout 3.
Background[edit]
It was a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, given in the town of Gettysburg, on November 19, 1863.[1] Originally, it could have been found by the Lone Wanderer from an unknown location and sold to Leroy Walker for 50 caps or to Hannibal Hamlin for 75 caps.[2]
Transcript[edit]
Fourscore 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.
Location[edit]
A copy of the Gettysburg Address is located in Rivet City at the Capitol Preservation Society. The text of the Gettysburg Address can be seen, in its entirety, inscribed on the south wall of the Lincoln Memorial.
Notes[edit]
- The dog Four Score's name is taken from the first line of the address.[Pub 1]
Appearances[edit]
The Gettysburg Address is mentioned in Fallout 3.
Gallery[edit]
Document in the right low corner
Gettysburg Address at Lincoln Memorial
GECK render of the Gettysburg Address in the Capitol Preservation Society
References[edit]
- ↑ Rivet City Terminal Entries; Welcome to the Capital Preservation Society, Gettysburg Address
- ↑ MS06Lincol_MS06BuyGettysbu_0008D4F4_1
- ↑ Fallout 3 Official Game Guide/Wasteland Census: "Four Score is Hannibal’s faithful dog companion. The literal meaning is “80,” but it is also found in the first line of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address."