Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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A tall, awkward, angular man stood up on a cold fall day in 1863 and spoke to a crowd assembled on the field of the most terrible battle of our nation’s most terrible war. There, in the unfinished cemetery near that little Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, nothing was certain, least of all the survival of the American experiment. In his reedy voice and flat Western accent, Abraham Lincoln set forth a brief history of the union, examined the conflict and gave a vision of what lay beyond. He saw not the old union restored but a...
