Proclamation orders, 1863-1865.

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Proclamation orders, 1863-1865.

These proclamations document Governor Thomas E. Bramlette's power and privilege to make official public announcements. Included are proclamations that contain the following: a call for military volunteers; a declaration that five southern sympathizers will be arrested for every citizen seized by Confederate guerillas; declarations of mourning following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; and instructions on holding elections.

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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...

Kentucky. Governor (1863-1867 : Bramlette)

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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...