It never was intended please the PC crowd on the left 150 years later.
These "groups" need to stop making the decisions for the rest of the country.
Their personal politics and agendas do not make them the arbitrators of what is right for the majority of the nation.
“To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan.”
So this is objectionable to the politically correct crowd because :
1. To care for “him”, they consider it bigoted to assume that a soldier is a male or “him”. What about women? And what about all the gender non conforming military? They will feel left out and marginalized and all that.
2. “His widow”. Are we assuming that he is married, to a woman? Oh my gosh, how bigoted that is to these people!
3. “his orphan”. Are we assuming that he has children by the spouse? Same issues, what if it’s a woman soldier, who will be offended by “his” orphan, when it should be “her” orphan in such a case???
4. And isn’t the term “orphan” considered outdated nowadays by these PC police people???
Simple solution. Replace the Lincoln quote with a suitable quotation from Jefferson Davis. Problem solved.