1865 -- Dearborn's Arsenal Receives Proclamation Regarding Abraham Lincoln

Here are the words from a Proclamation that my Great-Great Grandfather had in his possession.  He was a doctor at the Arsenal. Edward. S. Snow. Here are the words:

Detroit Arsenal,

Dearbornville, Mich., May 31^st, 1865

Post Order No 16.

            The President of the United States having appointed to-morrow, June 1^st, as a day of humiliation and mourning for our good and martyred President, work of every kind will be suspended at this Post, and all connected with the Arsenal are earnestly enjoined to comply with the spirit of the President’s Proclamation.

            Abraham Lincoln is dead and buried; while an upright and conscientious Magistrate needs no nobler monument than the flag which floats to-day triumphant from the lakes to the gulf, from ocean to ocean – over one Union and one People – let us mourn for the man, true and just let us freshen his grave with our tears, and with our prayers, keep his memory green in our hearts.

                                                O.E. Michaelis

                                                1^st St. Ord. Confr.

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