Giving Thanks-- Part 1: "A Day of Thanksgiving and Praise"

From the November 24, 2017, Coastal Point  "Civil War Congress gives thanks during the Civil War" by Tom Ryan.

Kind of a good article for a Thanksgiving.

On October 3, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued Proclamation 106, establishing the national day of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday in November "inviting my fellow citizens in every part of the United States ... to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise our beneficial Father who dwelleth in the heavens."

--Old SeThanks