-Winchester (May 25, 1862); Loyal to Virginia, Jackson was against slavery and freed the slaves he inherited from his wife’s estate. 01/04/1861 . In the confusion that followed, Jackson was dropped from his stretcher while being evacuated. I have always desired to may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people? All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the nation will be heard on high and answered with blessing no less than the pardon of our national sins and the restoration of our now divided and suffering country to its former happy condition of unity and peace. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! -Antietam (September 17, 1862); Lincoln’s National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer was observed the 30th day of April, 1863. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 16th President of the United States: 1861 ‐ 1865 Proclamation 85—Proclaiming a Day of National Humiliation, Prayer, and Fasting August 12, 1861 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Whereas a joint committee of both Houses of Congress has waited on the President of the United States and requested him to… And I do hereby request all the people to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion. His left arm had to be amputated. Jackson’s death was difficult to reconcile, as he was exemplary in faith and virtue. It is the maintenance of our American ideals, beneath a common flag, under the blessings of Almighty God.”. One of the South’s best generals was accidentally shot by his own men. 2007—2016 by Dickinson College. Two bullets hit General Jackson’s left arm and one hit his right hand. Change ), The Quran saved in Alabama during the Civil War, Instructions For American Servicemen In Iraq During World War II, Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation 85—Proclaiming a Day of National Humiliation, Prayer, and Fasting, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202314, How the autobiography of a Muslim slave is challenging an American narrative, #MAGA: Proclaiming a Day of National Humiliation, Prayer, and Fasting, Remembering the great saint Murabit Al-Hajj (Muhammad Ould Fahfu al-Massumi). This event took place on the assigned day and was widely observed. Two days later, a freak accident occurred which changed the course of the war. He refused to let his men give ground at the First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861), standing there “like a stonewall.”. This Broadside announces an event in Middletown, Ohio which was held pursuant to the National Day of Humiliation Proclamation written and signed by Abraham Lincoln on August 12th 1861. Whereas when our own beloved country, once, by the blessing of God, united, prosperous, and happy, is now afflicted with faction and civil war, it is peculiarly fit for us to recognize the hand of God in this terrible visitation, and in sorrowful remembrance of our own faults and crimes as a nation and as individuals to humble ourselves before Him and to pray for His mercy–to pray that we may be spared further punishment, though most justly deserved; that our arms may be blessed and made effectual for the reestablishment of law, order, and peace throughout the wide extent of our country; and that the inestimable boon of civil and religious liberty, earned under His guidance and blessing by the labors and sufferings of our fathers, may be restored in all its original excellence: Therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do appoint the last Thursday in September next as a day of humiliation, prayer, and fasting for all the people of the nation. General Lee sent the message through Chaplain B.T. By the President: William H. Seward, Secretary of State.”. On May 2, 1863, being outnumbered 2 to 1, with 133,868 Union troops against 60,892 Confederates, Stonewall Jackson successfully attacked the Union flank in the Battle of Chancellorville. Prayer: reaching out for guidance. Beginning in 1855, Jackson participated in civil disobedience every Sunday by teaching a Colored Sunday School class at the Lexington Presbyterian Church. Lincoln's National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer was observed APRIL 30, 1863. By the President of the United States of America, Whereas a joint committee of both Houses of Congress has waited on the President of the United States and requested him to “recommend a day of public humiliation, prayer, and fasting to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnities and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these States, His blessings on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace;” and, Whereas it is fit and becoming in all people at all times to acknowledge and revere the supreme government of God, to bow in humble submission to His chastisements, to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and to pray with all fervency and contrition for the pardon of their past offenses and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action; and.