Civil War-dated partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.25 x 18.5, July 1, 1864. President Lincoln appoints Robert Lennox as "First Lieutenant in the Second Regiment of Cavalry in the service of the United States." Signed at the conclusion by Lincoln, and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The blue War Office seal affixed to the upper left remains partially intact. Handsomely double-matted and framed to an overall size of 25 x 29.5. In very good to fine condition, with partial damage to the blue wafer seal, and heavy intersecting folds, one of which passes horizontally through Lincoln's signature, which is quite light but completely legible. Lennox, whose promotion was backdated to April 1863, had been wounded in action once at Beverly Ford, Virginia, in June 1863, and again at Smithfield, Virginia, in January 1864, where he lost his left arm. He was then assigned as a mustering and disbursing officer in Michigan in 1864, and at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1865.
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