1863 Nov Am Civil War Gazette

The Extra!!! Edition of the American Civil War Gazette contains back issues as well as additional articles that did not appear in the daily edition.

Highlights of the November 1863 Edition:

- The first National Thanksgiving holiday is declared
- Prior to 1863 Thanksgiving proclamations were declared state by state
- The declaration set Thanksgiving for the last Thursday in November

- Gettysburg
- "Four score and seven years ago..."
- The Gettysburg Address is given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetary
- Gen. George G. Meade's Official Report of the Battle of Gettysburg is published

- Chattanooga Campaign continues
- Battle of Lookout Mountain
- Battle of Missionary Ridge
- Battle of Ringgold Gap

- Longstreet's Knoxville Campaign continues
- Siege of Knoxville
- Battle of Campbell's Station
- Battle of Fort Sanders

- Bristoe Campaign concludes
- Second Battle of Rappahannock Station

- Control of the Railroads
- The Memphis & Charleston Railroad
- Battle of Collierville, Tennessee
- Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
- Battle of Droop Mountain

- Meade's Mine Run Campaign begins
- Battle of Mine Run

- An original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation goes on sale Nov. 4 in Chicago

- Maryland voters approve statewide Emancipation

- Gen. John Hunt Morgan (CSA) and six officers escape by tunnel from an Ohio prison