LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Engraved document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and endorsed at top by Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas, Washington, D.C., 24 February 1863. 1 page, large folio, 440 x 347 mm. (15 5/16 x 13 3/4 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, pink paper seal of the United States at upper left, bold heading at top "The President of the United States," beneath which an American Eagle and the "E Pluribus Unum" motto, large vignette of crossed flags, cannons and other military paraphenalia at bottom, with small legend "Engraved by J. V .N. and C. H. Throop, Washn. City," accomplished in manuscript in black ink, double matted and glazed in a fine giltwood frame. In particularly fine condition, with no trace of fading. An appointment of Eugene A. Gross as a "Commissary of Subsistence of Volunteers" with rank of captain.

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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Engraved document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and endorsed at top by Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas, Washington, D.C., 24 February 1863. 1 page, large folio, 440 x 347 mm. (15 5/16 x 13 3/4 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, pink paper seal of the United States at upper left, bold heading at top "The President of the United States," beneath which an American Eagle and the "E Pluribus Unum" motto, large vignette of crossed flags, cannons and other military paraphenalia at bottom, with small legend "Engraved by J. V .N. and C. H. Throop, Washn. City," accomplished in manuscript in black ink, double matted and glazed in a fine giltwood frame. In particularly fine condition, with no trace of fading. An appointment of Eugene A. Gross as a "Commissary of Subsistence of Volunteers" with rank of captain.