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- GLC#
- GLC03113
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- March 21, 1865
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- [Promotion of Henry Eugene Davies to Major General]
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : vellum : docket Height: 44.7 cm, Width: 35.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
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.
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