Thomas E. Bramlette, Proclamation
1865-04-21
- Date of Creation
- April 21, 1865
- Place of Creation
- Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Proclamation/Legislation
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Proclamations, 1863-1865
- Box / Folder
- BR1-366
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-001-0001
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32202700
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Citation
Thomas E. Bramlette, Proclamation, 1865-04-21, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Proclamations, 1863-1865, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-001-0001 (November 14, 2026).
PROCLAMATION.
{UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL}
Commonwealth of Kentucky,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Frankfort,
In view of the sad calamity which has fallen upon our country by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States of America, it becomes us as a people to humble ourselves before a Merciful God, and pray Him that the sin of our people, which has culminated in such great crime, be forgiven, and we purged from our iniquity, and be again restored to His favor, and to peace and unity amongst ourselves.
For this purpose, Thursday, the 4th
On that day the people of Kentucky are invoked to suspend all secular business, and, at the usual hour for service, attend their respective places of worship, and engage in the solemn and earnest observance of the day as one for humiliation before God, and prayer for His forgiving mercy and sustaining grace, in this our day of affliction.
THOS. E. BRAMLETTE, Governor of Kentucky.
To accord with the Proclamation of President Johnson, Gov Bramlette has changed the date of the foregoing Proclamation from the