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- GLC#
- GLC00778.04-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- April 1, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- [Commission of Thomas Ward, Second Lieutenant in 1st Regiment Artillery]
- Pagination
- 1 p. : vellum : docket Height: 50 cm, Width: 39 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Commission of Thomas Ward as a Second Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Artillery, beginning on June 11, 1863. Signed by Abraham Lincoln, countersigned by E. M. Stanton as Secretary of War. Docketed at top by Edward D. Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General, note reads "Recorded Volume 18 page 38 - Adjutant General's office, April 4, 1864". Features a paper seal from the Office of War and two patriotic scenes.
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