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- GLC#
- GLC04741
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 14 August 1861
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- [Promotion of Thomas W. Sherman to Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Regiment of Artillery].
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : vellum : docket Height: 44.4 cm, Width: 34.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
This document is a record of the promotion of Thomas W. Sherman, signed by Abraham Lincoln as President and countersigned by Simon Cameron as Secretary of War. Partially printed from an engraving, with blanks filled in by hand. Accompanied by an orange seal and docketed in the upper left corner.
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