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 ...

and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

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Many presidents ignored Hale's letters, but President Lincoln did not. His October 3rd, 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation read, "In the midst of a civil war of unequal magnitude and severity ...

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A famed publisher even wrote to President Herbert Hoover ... the trauma of the Civil War to make Thanksgiving a formal, annual holiday. Lincoln issued his proclamation on Oct. 3, 1863, three ...

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In that spirit, we again reproduce President Lincoln’s original Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day, dated Oct. 3, 1863. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with ...