Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.75 x 19, March 4, 1864. President Lincoln appoints Philip G. Bier as "Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain, in the service of the United States." Neatly signed at the conclusion in ink by President Abraham Lincoln, and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Mounted, matted, and framed to an overall size of 23.5 x 27.5. In very good to fine condition, with overall rippling, and minor loss along the side edges.
Capt. Philip G. Bier enlisted as a private in Company D, Twelfth Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek, October 1864, at which time he was captain in the United States Volunteers and acting as assistant adjutant general on the staff of Major General Crook. The 'Contemporary Biography of West Virginia' says: 'While endeavoring to rally the retreating Union troops near Middletown, about thirteen miles from Winchester, October 19, 1864, he was mortally wounded and died from the effects of the wound the same day.'
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