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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 [Promotion of Henry Eugene Davies to Major General]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03113 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Document signed Date: 21 March 1865 Pagination: 1 p. : vellum : docket Height: 44.7 cm, Width: 35.2 cm Order a Copy

Official document promoting Davies, signed by President Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Partially printed from an engraving, with blanks filled in by hand. Features two detailed patriotic scenes and a blue paper seal from the War Office. Docketed at top by Assistant Adjutant General E. D. Townsend on March 22, 1865.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
Davies, Henry Eugene, 1836-1894
Townsend, E. D. (Edward Davis), 1817-1893

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