Civil War | Historic Site
Lincoln Memorial
Washington DC
National Mall
Washington, DC 20565
United States
Website
This classical structure contains Daniel Chester French's monumental sculpture of the sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address are carved on the marble walls.
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