[CIVIL WAR, CONFEDERATE APPOINTMENTS]. Two C.S.A. appointments: MALLORY, STEPHEN RUSSELL, Secretary of the Navy, C.S.A. Printed document signed (S.R. Mallory"), Navy Department, Richmond ["Montgomery"] is crossed out in heading], 11 June 1861, 1 page, 245 x 192 mm. (9 5/8 x 7 1/16 in.), careful repair to lower right-hand corner, age-toned, an official, Montgomery, Alabama-printed document of early date, accomplished in manuscript in a florid hand, noting that "The President has appointed" James W. Cook of Fredericksburg, Va., a Lieutenant "in the Navy of the Confederate States." Confederate Naval appointments are rare, especially in good condition -- BRECKINRIDGE, JOHN C., Vice-President U.S.A., Secretary of War, C.S.A. Printed document signed ("John C. Breckinridge"), Richmond, 2 March 1865, 1 page, 4to, 255 x 197 mm. (10 x 7 3/4 in.), on blue paper, fine condition, accomplished in manuscript, notifying R.M. Grinnell (very late in the war) that "The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate," has appointed him a Major in the Adjutant General's Department, "in the Provisional Army in the service of the Confederate States"; he is directed to "report for duty with Maj. Genl. Heth's Division Army N. Va." Breckinridge appointments signed as Secretary of War are rare. (2)