Auction Date:2010 Dec 08 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Partly-printed war-dated DS as president, one page, 15 x 18.5, April 4, 1862. President Lincoln appoints John B. Lewis a “Brigade Surgeon of Volunteers.” Signed at the conclusion by Lincoln, and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Moderate wrinkling and rippling, a few small areas of paper loss, show-through from mounting remnants on reverse, and a bit of trivial foxing, otherwise very good condition. The blue seal is intact and only slightly worn.
Union forces, especially members of volunteer regiments, were in need of skilled cutters like Dr. Lewis throughout the war. A native of Suffolk County, New York, Lewis was commissioned a surgeon in 1861 before receiving this promotion. After serving as medical director for General James Shields’ division of volunteers, Lewis—a participant in thirteen battles and skirmishes, including the Battle of Antietam—was placed in the charge of a hospital in Cumberland, Maryland until the end of the war. An always desirable Lincoln-signed Civil War appointment.
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