LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Engraved document signed in full as President, countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and endorsed at top by E.D. Townshend, Washington, D.C., 15 March 1865. 1 page, large folio, 492 x 393 mm. (19 5/16 x 13 3/4 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, blue 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 paraphernalia at bottom, with small legend "Engraved by J. V .N. and C. H. Throop, Washn. City," accomplished in manuscript, Appointing U.L.M. Burger an Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers with rank of Major. Fine condition.

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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Engraved document signed in full as President, countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and endorsed at top by E.D. Townshend, Washington, D.C., 15 March 1865. 1 page, large folio, 492 x 393 mm. (19 5/16 x 13 3/4 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, blue 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 paraphernalia at bottom, with small legend "Engraved by J. V .N. and C. H. Throop, Washn. City," accomplished in manuscript, Appointing U.L.M. Burger an Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers with rank of Major. Fine condition.