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Why the Speech is Important - The importance of the Gettysburg Address is partly due to the broad way in which Lincoln addressed the situation. Learn about the Gettysburg Address importance.
Lots of people say that Gettysburg was the South at it's pinnacle and lots of historians believe the South won at Gettysburg however there is another more important point to consider. I believe that the turning point was when Southern governors couldn't convince Southern planters to plant food instead of cotton.