LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Engraved document boldly signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, countersigned by Secretary of War Simon Cameron, Washington, D.C., 19 August 1861. 1 page, folio, matted with a portrait and glazed in a giltwood frame, the signature and other accomplishments a bit pale, unexamined out of frame. PRINTED ON PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, orange 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 Aaron Smith a First Lieutenant of an infantry regiment.

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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Engraved document boldly signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, countersigned by Secretary of War Simon Cameron, Washington, D.C., 19 August 1861. 1 page, folio, matted with a portrait and glazed in a giltwood frame, the signature and other accomplishments a bit pale, unexamined out of frame. PRINTED ON PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, orange 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 Aaron Smith a First Lieutenant of an infantry regiment.