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THBAugust 6, 1863 Civil War Thanksgiving Sermon, per Abraham Lincoln Proclamation
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August 6th 1863 Thanksgiving Day Called for by Abraham Lincoln Sermon Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church
August 6, 1863-Dated Civil War period Booklet titled, "Thanksgiving Sermon, Delivered in First Presbyterian Church, of Stubenville (Ohio), August 6th, 1863...", by Reverend Henry Woods, published by Request, Complete, Very Good.
The first of this small print run historic Sermon per special Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln shortly after the Union victory over the Confederate States army at Gettysburg. This Imprint measuring 5.75" x 8.75", with 10 pages printed in black ink on tan paper, original printed paper cover wraps. Expressing gratitude for the pivotal Union Army Victory at Gettysburg, President Lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving Day holiday. The covers are fully intact yet soiled with some stains, short edge splits and well worn from actual use. Somewhat dog-eared corner tips throughout and internally remains clean with dark printed text, complete. This rare, extremely limited published Sermon was provided by Request only with about 20 church members listed in the front introduction page. This Sermon was given on August 6th, 1863 for the first official "Thanksgiving" per the original "Thanksgiving Proclamation," issued by President Lincoln at the City of Washington, this 15th day of July A.D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. Lincoln suggested August 6th as the National Day of Thanksgiving after the Union victory at Gettysburg. Obviously historic in its nature and exceedingly rare. The first we have offered.
The original Thanksgiving Proclamation, issued by President Lincoln back in 1863, suggested August 6th as the national day of Thanksgiving. The holiday had been celebrated since colonial times, but each state set aside its own date to observe the occasion. This proclamation was the first to make it a national holiday. But the original date didn't last long. A few months later, President Lincoln issued a second proclamation, changing the date to November.
THANKSGIVING DAY 1863 for Victory in Battle BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - A PROCLAMATION
It has pleased Almighty God to hearken to the supplications and prayers of an afflicted people and to vouchsafe to the Army and the Navy of the United States victories on land and on the sea so signal and so effective as to furnish reasonable grounds for augmented confidence that the Union of these States will be maintained, their Constitution preserved, and their peace and prosperity permanently restored. But these victories have been accorded not without sacrifices of life, limb, health, and liberty, incurred by brave, loyal, and patriotic citizens. Domestic affliction in every part of the country follows in the train of these fearful bereavements. It is meet and right to recognize and confess the presence of the Almighty Father and the power of His hand equally in these triumphs and in these sorrows:
Now, therefore, be it known that I do set apart Thursday, the 6th day of August next, to be
observed as a day for national thanksgiving, praise, and prayer, and I invite the people of the
United States to assemble on that occasion in their customary places of worship and in the forms approved by their own consciences render the homage due to the Divine Majesty for the wonderful things He has done in the nation's behalf and invoke the influence of His Holy Spirit to subdue the anger which has produced and so long sustained a needless and cruel rebellion, to change the hearts of the insurgents, to guide the counsels of the Government with wisdom adequate to so great a national emergency, and to visit with tender care and consolation throughout the length and breadth of our land all those who, through the vicissitudes of marches, voyages, battles, andsieges, have been brought to suffer in mind, body, or estate, and finally to lead the whole nation through the paths of repentance and submission to the divine will back to the perfect enjoyment of union and fraternal peace.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of July A.D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. - ABRAHAM LINCOLN
In 1621, settlers in Massachusetts celebrated what has come to be regarded as the first thanksgiving in the New World. On October 3, 1789, George Washington issued a proclamation creating the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America, to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26, 1789. John Adams and James Madison similarly declared Thanksgiving a holiday.
However, it wasn't until October 3, 1863, at the height of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation encouraging Americans, "in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea, and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens." Thanksgiving has been celebrated in the United States ever since.
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