Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 17.75 x 11.25, March 3, 1871. President Grant appoints H. P. Van Cleve to be "Deputy Postmaster at Saint Anthony's Falls in the State of Minnesota." Signed at the conclusion by President Ulysses S. Grant and countersigned by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. The white paper seal affixed at the lower left remains fully intact. In fine condition.
Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (1809-1891), a New Jersey native, was a soldier, teacher, farmer, livestock raiser, engineer, and surveyor. He graduated from West Point Military Academy, and he served frontier duty in the U.S. Army in Wisconsin. He served in the Union Army throughout the Civil War, rising from the rank of colonel with the Minnesota Volunteers to general in command at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He saw action at the Battle of Logan’s Cross Roads, participated in the Siege of Corinth, was wounded at Stone’s River, and fought at the Battle of Chickamauga. After the war, he was Adjutant General of Minnesota for 10 years.
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