Messages to the General Assembly, 1863-1867.

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Messages to the General Assembly, 1863-1867.

These files document communication between Governor Thomas E. Bramlette and the General Assembly regarding affairs of the Commonwealth. Included are printed copies of communications from the governor to the legislature, such as messages concerning the general condition of the state. Also included are transcripts of letters between Governor Bramlette, Union officials, and President Abraham Lincoln, in which the governor protests various actions of federal military authorities in Kentucky.

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Kentucky. Governor (1863-1867 : Bramlette)

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Kentucky. General Assembly

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Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875

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Kentucky governor. From the description of Proclamation, 1863 Oct. 17. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34122466 Thomas E. Bramlette was born in Cumberland County, KY, in 1817. He was a elected a member of the KY state legislature in 1841 and served as a KY state court judge in 1856. He was a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War and a U.S. District Attorney for Kentucky in 1863. He served as Governor of Kentucky, 1863-67. He died in Louisville, KY, in...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...