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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., 5 February 1862. 1 page, folio, signature and accomplishments slightly pale, PRINTED ON PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, intact blue paper seal of the United States at left, bold heading at top "The President of the United States," beneath which an American Eagle and the "E Pluribus Unum" motto fly above billowing clouds, at bottom a large vignette of crossed flags, cannon and other military paraphernalia, with small legend "Engraved by J.V.N. and C.H. Throop, Washn. City," accomplished in manuscript. President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton appoint D.B. Sacket an "...Inspector General with the rank of Colonel..."

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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., 5 February 1862. 1 page, folio, signature and accomplishments slightly pale, PRINTED ON PARCHMENT, elaborately engraved, intact blue paper seal of the United States at left, bold heading at top "The President of the United States," beneath which an American Eagle and the "E Pluribus Unum" motto fly above billowing clouds, at bottom a large vignette of crossed flags, cannon and other military paraphernalia, with small legend "Engraved by J.V.N. and C.H. Throop, Washn. City," accomplished in manuscript. President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton appoint D.B. Sacket an "...Inspector General with the rank of Colonel..."