LINCOLN, Abraham, President . Partly printed document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, Washington, D.C., 7 July 1864. 1 page, 4to, endorsed on verso, accomplished in manuscript , fine condition. Lincoln directs the Secretary of State to affix the Great Seal of the United States to "my proclamation." A DAY OF NATIONAL HUMILITY AND PRAYER TO END THE CIVIL WAR In May of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant, Commander of all Union Forces, crossed the Rapidan River and headed for Richmond. Confronting him was Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The two armies clashed in the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor. In the succession of those battles fought between May 5 and June 12, 1864, the Army of the Potomac suffered nearly 55,000 casualties - 45 percent of all those who began the campaign. The United States was in its third year of civil war, and in those few weeks of carnage it was clear that Grant would do anything and sacrifice all to conquer Richmond and end the war. During that same period, William T. Sherman led 3 Federal Armies south into Georgia to destroy the Confederate forces of Joseph E. Johnson During May, Sherman's battle losses were over 9,200. On 2 July, exactly one year after the North's first and costly victory at Gettysburg, Congress passed a joint resolution asking the President to declare a national day of humiliation and prayer asking God to end the war. The proclamation would ask that every soldier, sailor and citizen spend one day and humbly pray to God to find an end to this war. Lincoln accordingly ordered that "...the first Thursday August next" be observed as "a day of national humiliation and prayer." He asked the nation to offer to God such supplications recommended by Congress that "...the existing rebellion may be speedily suppressed...not to destroy us as a people...to grant our armed defenders and the masses of the people that courage, power of resistance, and endurance necessary to secure that result..." and to implore God "...to soften the hearts, to enlighten the minds, and quicken the consciences of those in rebellion, that they may lay down their arms and speedily return to their allegiance to the United States, that they may not be utterly destroyed, that the effusion of blood may be stayed, and that unity and fraternity be restored and peace established throughout all our borders." It would take another 8 months and thousands of lives before these prayers would be answered. A typed transcript of the full text of the proclamation accompanies the lot.
LINCOLN, Abraham, President . Partly printed document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, Washington, D.C., 7 July 1864. 1 page, 4to, endorsed on verso, accomplished in manuscript , fine condition. Lincoln directs the Secretary of State to affix the Great Seal of the United States to "my proclamation." A DAY OF NATIONAL HUMILITY AND PRAYER TO END THE CIVIL WAR In May of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant, Commander of all Union Forces, crossed the Rapidan River and headed for Richmond. Confronting him was Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The two armies clashed in the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor. In the succession of those battles fought between May 5 and June 12, 1864, the Army of the Potomac suffered nearly 55,000 casualties - 45 percent of all those who began the campaign. The United States was in its third year of civil war, and in those few weeks of carnage it was clear that Grant would do anything and sacrifice all to conquer Richmond and end the war. During that same period, William T. Sherman led 3 Federal Armies south into Georgia to destroy the Confederate forces of Joseph E. Johnson During May, Sherman's battle losses were over 9,200. On 2 July, exactly one year after the North's first and costly victory at Gettysburg, Congress passed a joint resolution asking the President to declare a national day of humiliation and prayer asking God to end the war. The proclamation would ask that every soldier, sailor and citizen spend one day and humbly pray to God to find an end to this war. Lincoln accordingly ordered that "...the first Thursday August next" be observed as "a day of national humiliation and prayer." He asked the nation to offer to God such supplications recommended by Congress that "...the existing rebellion may be speedily suppressed...not to destroy us as a people...to grant our armed defenders and the masses of the people that courage, power of resistance, and endurance necessary to secure that result..." and to implore God "...to soften the hearts, to enlighten the minds, and quicken the consciences of those in rebellion, that they may lay down their arms and speedily return to their allegiance to the United States, that they may not be utterly destroyed, that the effusion of blood may be stayed, and that unity and fraternity be restored and peace established throughout all our borders." It would take another 8 months and thousands of lives before these prayers would be answered. A typed transcript of the full text of the proclamation accompanies the lot.
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