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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Engraved document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, countersigned by Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, Washington, D.C., 20 February 1862. One page, folio, 488 x 370 mm. (19¼ x 14½ in), ON PARCHMENT, with large engraved vignettes, blue paper seal, accomplished in manuscript, creased from folding, vellum slightly wrinkled. Appointment of Cornelius L. King as Captain in the Twelfth Regiment of the Infantry.