Details from a Harper's Weekly illustration about Thanksgiving during the war. Christian McWhirter is the ALPLM's Lincoln Historian. Thanksgiving as a national holiday owes its origins to Sarah Josepha Hale, who lobbied Abraham Lincoln—and wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb" 1789: President George Washington declares November 26th, a national day of thanksgiving. 1815: President James Madison declares a national day of prayer and thanksgiving. 1827: Sarah Josepha Hale writes essays calling for an annual national celebration of thanksgiving. George Washington was the first president to proclaim a day of thanksgiving, issuing his request on October 3, 1789, exactly 74 years before Lincoln's. The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise." On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation designating “the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving.” Lincoln’s announcement marked the culmination of a multi-decade campaign by Sarah Josepha Hale to make Thanksgiving into a national holiday. The earliest Thanksgiving can occur is Nov. 22, according to "The Old Farmer's Almanac." The latest it can occur is Nov. 28, like it does in 2024. 'Day of Publick Thanksgivin' celebrated in 1789 It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November. But the holiday is not without controversy. Abraham Lincoln himself called for a day of thanks in April 1862, following Union victories at Fort Donelson, Fort Henry and at Shiloh, and again in the summer of 1863 after the Battle of... President Abraham Lincoln started the modern practice of a national Thanksgiving holiday. Amidst a raging Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued a “ Proclamation of Thanksgiving ” on October...
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