Proclamation of a Day of Thanksgiving by Andrew Curtin

Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin (Class of 1837) issues this proclamation during the Civil War on October 16, 1861: "...to the People of this Commonwealth, that they set apart Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November next, As a day of solemn Thanksgiving to God for having prepared our Corn and watered our Furrows... And for having looked favorably on this Commonwealth... Beseeching Him also, on behalf of these United States, that our beloved Country may have deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith she is compassed, and that He will mercifully still the outrage of perverse, violent, unruly and rebellious People..."

This copy of the proclamation is addressed to Connecticut Governor William A. Buckingham.