Thomas E. Bramlette, First Lieutenant, James B. Flack

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KYR-0002-038-0051

Document Genre

Commission/Appointment

Repository

Kentucky Department of Military Affairs

Collection

Union Artillery, Navy and Marines Primary Source Documents ; Misc U.S.C.T. Primary Source Documents

Item Location

Box 14, Folder 1st INDEPENDENT BTRY LT. ARTY OFFICERS

Place of Creation

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

18 December 1863

Dates Mentioned

1863-12-18

1864-03-09

1864-04-04

Thomas E. Bramlette, First Lieutenant, James B. Flack, 18 December 1863, Union Artillery, Navy and Marines Primary Source Documents ; Misc U.S.C.T. Primary Source Documents, Box 14, Folder 1st INDEPENDENT BTRY LT. ARTY OFFICERS, Kentucky Department of Military Affairs, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0002-038-0051, (accessed March 20, 2025).

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IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF
The Commonwealth of Kentucky,
{KENTUCKY
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL}
THOMAS E. BRAMLETTE,
GOVERNOR OF SAID COMMONWEALTH
To all whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

Know Ye, That James B. Flask having been duly appointed to the office of First Lieutenant (vice James W. Conine promoted)
In the 1st Independent Battery~~Regiment~~ of Kentucky Volunteer Militia, organized under the Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth, and to be mustered into the service of the United States:

NOW KNOW YOU, That, by the powers vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of said State, and reposing special trust and confidence in your patriotism, valor, fidelity, and ability, I do, by these presents Commission you as 1^st Lieutenant as aforsaid, for the term of three years unless sooner discharged, upon condition that you take the oath indorsed hereon, within ten days form receipt hereof, sending a certificate thereof to General Headquarters; and I do hereby authorize and require you to discharge, all and singular, the duties and services appertaining to your said office, agreeably to law and general regulations, and to obey such orders and instructions as you shall, from time to time, receive from your superior officers.

{SEAL OF KENTUCKY
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL}

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and caused the seal of the State of Kentucky to be affixed, at Frankfort, the eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty=three and in the eighty=eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

Tho E Bramlette

BY THE GOVERNOR:
E. L. VanWinkle, Secretary of State.
By Jas R Page
Asst Secty

Commonwealth Office -- WM. E. HUGHES, State Printer.

OATH.

I James B. Flask do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Kentucky, and will discharge, all and singular, the duties and services appertaining to the office of First Lieutenant, in the Kentucky Volunteer Militia, agreeably to law and general regulations, and will obey such orders and instructions as I shall from time to time receive from the proper officers.

James. B. Flack

Before me, personally appeared the above James B Flask and made the oath above written, and signed the same in my presence.

H. Thompson Adjt 23rd O. V. I.
March 9 A. D. 1864.

1^st Ind Arty

Flask James B
1^stLieut

Commission

heretofore cancelled

Rec^dA. G. O. April 4. 1864

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