LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Engraved document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Washington, D.C., 10 January 1863. 1 page, folio, matted and glazed in a wood frame, unexamined out of frame. PRINTED ON PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, blue paper seal of the United States at left, bold heading at top "The President of the United States," beneath which an American Eagle and the "E Pluribus Unum" motto fly above billowing clouds, at bottom a large vignette of crossed flags, cannon and other military paraphernalia, with small legend "Engraved by J.V.N. and C.H. Throop, Washn. City," accomplished in manuscript. A CHAPLAIN'S APPOINTMENT: President and Secretary Stanton appoint Noah Gaylord a Hospital Chaplain.