to visit with tender care and consolation throughout the length and breadth of our land all those who, through the vicissitudes of marches, voyages, battles, and sieges, have been brought to suffer in mind, body, or estate.
Proclamation 103—Day of Thanksgiving, Praise, and Prayer, August 6, 1863
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