Three years into the savagery of a cruel Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation for a national feast day, even giving it a firm date: “the last Thursday of November next.” When we ...
President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual tradition, we reproduce the text below in commemoration of ...
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