Well Known Proclamations
No president has issued more famous proclamations than Lincoln, from the proclamation declaring the first national day of Thanksgiving, to what is arguably the most famous presidential proclamation ever issued: the Emancipation Proclamation. These two, plus four well known wartime proclamations or orders, comprise the grouping I have included below:
Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress, April 15, 1861
Proclamation of Blockade Against Southern Ports, April 19, 1861
Order of Retaliation, July 30, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1863
Thanksgiving Proclamation, October 3, 1863
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, December 8, 1863

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