LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Engraved document boldly signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Washington, D.C., 26 February 1863. 1 page, large folio, neatly mounted, in gilt-edged mat with a portrait and glazed in a fine giltwood frame, PRINTED ON PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, blue paper seal of the United States at top left, bold heading at top "President of the United States of America," beneath which an American Eagle and the "E Pluribus Unum," motto fly above billowing clouds, a large vignette of crossed flags, cannon and other military paraphernalia at the bottom, with small legend "Engraved by J.V.N. and C.H. Throop, Washington City," accomplished in manuscript. President Lincoln and Secretary Cameron appoint Jacob R. Ludlow a Surgeon of Volunteers in the Union Army.