"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" - excerpt from The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln According to the passage, what was Abraham Lincoln's MAIN purpose of the address? A) celebrate the Union's crushing victory of the Confederates B) announce Lincoln's plans to emancipate southern slaves C) explain the higher purpose of the Civil War D) comfort Union troops on their way south