Military appointment for Colonel William Blaisdell of the Eighteenth Massachusetts Voluntary Forces, July 6, 1864.

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Military appointment for Colonel William Blaisdell of the Eighteenth Massachusetts Voluntary Forces, July 6, 1864.

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Document confers the rank of Brigadier General. Signed by President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. This item was originally framed. A framer's label accompanies the document : Henry M. Cass, Picture Frame Manufacturer ... Boston.

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State Library of Massachusetts

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