Military commissions, Certificates, United States. 1846-1942.

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Military commissions, Certificates, United States. 1846-1942.

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Certificates for service in the U.S. military issued to: Louis D. Welch, Brevet Second Lieutenant of Artillery, Mar. 25, 1846, signed by James K. Polk, President and W.L. Marcey, Secretary of War; Augustas Bodwell, promotion to corporal, 14th Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the service of the United States, Mar. 23, 1865; Reynold Webb Wilcox, Major in the Medical Section, Officers' Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States, Apr. 9, 1917; Reynold Webb Wilcox, 1st Lieutenant, Medical Reserve Corps of the United States, April 22, 1910, signed by William Howard Taft; Roderick Bissell Jones, Lieutenant Commander, Naval Reserve of the United States, July, 3, 1942, signed by James Forrestal, Acting Secretary of the Navy; William G. Fitch, 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Regiment, Oct. 29, 1861, signed by Abraham Lincoln; William G. Fitch, 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Regiment, Sept. 12, 1862, signed by Abraham Lincoln. Illustrated with engraved vignettes, including work by J.V.N. and C.H. Throop, Washington City and by Andrew B. Graham Co., photo-lithographer, Washington, D.C.

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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