Gettysburg Address

Dear Diary,




Lincoln presented his speech today. I'm so glad they are burying those bodies because they have made the town stink of an awful odor. Those boys need a proper burial because they fought for this country and they have love ones. Lincoln's speech is going to be in history someday. He said that the boys on both sides fought for this country and they will dedicate the land for them because all men are created equally. I agree with what he said, in that, our job is to bring the nation together. He feels that we have to keep this nation together and honor what the soldiers fought for.

I smelt the smell of those soldiers for days. They just left them out there and didn't bother to do anything about it. It was making our whole town smell of dead, rotting corpse. I'm so glad that Lincoln is doing something about this. Though we had to let him know all these bodies were lying around. Not only did we have our soldiers lying around but we had the Confederate's dead soldiers smelling up our town also! Our men deserve better! They fought for us and don't deserve to be left out there for days. None of the fellow soldiers they fought with even blinked an eye at the decision of leaving them there.

sincerely,
Fran