Giving Thanks in 2006
November 23, 2006
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The year was 1863. America was in the middle of an incredibly bloody civil war.
It was a war where the old style massed formations of men marched into the fields with the new repeating rifles to create death on an incredibly large scale.
That year included the battles of Chancelorsville, Vicksburg, Brandy Station, Gettysburg, Secessionville, Chickamaunga, and Chattanooga.
The outcome of the war was very far from certain.
And it was into this uncertainty that the Union President Abraham Lincoln issued his Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day. Here’s an excerpt:
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