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War Department
Date1862-07-05
Dimensions25.38 × 17.77 cm (10 × 7 in.)
MarkingsSignature of Abraham Lincoln; signature of Edwin M. Stanton.
Credit LineGift of Miss Sarah (Sally) Ripley Bartlett (1915)
Object number2006.053
DescriptionLetterpress and manuscript on paper. Commission, Civil War. War Department, Washington City, D.C. "Know ye, That William C. Whitcomb of Massachusetts has been, and is hereby, appointed Chaplain of the United States Hospital at Newberne, N.C...." Signed by President Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton (Secretary of War). On the other side, notations by various paymasters (both red and black ink), 1862-65.
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