LINCOLN, Abraham President (1809-1865). Document signed ("Abraham Lincoln"), as President, Washington, 6 August 1861. 1 page, folio (13 x 17 in.), PRINTED ON PARCHMENT, with elaborately engraved roman and calligraphic script at top, "The President of the United States of America," and with engraved motifs of an American eagle clutching lightning bolts and olive branch at top, and images of flags, cannon and muskets below; matted and framed with an engraving of Lincoln, in a museum quality gilt edge frame (30 x 35½ in.). Lincoln appoints Augustus V. Barringer a Captain of the Commissary of Subsistence. Co-signed by Thomas A. Scott, Acting Secretary of War.