LINCOLN, Abraham. Partially engraved document signed ("Abraham Lincoln"), as President, City of Washington, 26 July 1862, countersigned by Edwin STANTON, as Secretary of War. Promoting George F. Tennatt to "Additional Aide-de-Camp."
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LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Partially engraved document signed ("Abraham Lincoln"), as President, City of Washington, 26 July 1862, countersigned by Edwin STANTON (1814-1869), as Secretary of War.
1 page, folio, 498 x 402 mm, on vellum, accomplished in manuscript, with paper seal, docketed upper margin, creased from folding.
Military appointment promoting George F. Tennatt to "Additional Aide-de-Camp with the rank of Captain." Tennatt was mortally wounded in the battle of Cedar Mountain, Culpeper Virginia, on 9 August 1862 after being shot. According to Brigadier General Henry Prince's account of the battle, "Capt. George F. Tennatt, aide-de-camp, fell from his horse mortally wounded by a Minie ball passing through the bridle hand and through the body while advancing toward the enemy in the execution of his duty. His deportment and his death were alike heroic."
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