Commissions appointing him 2d. lt., 1st lt., and capt. in the 3d Regiment of Artillery, and notifications of the commissions [manuscript] 1856-62.

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Commissions appointing him 2d. lt., 1st lt., and capt. in the 3d Regiment of Artillery, and notifications of the commissions [manuscript] 1856-62.

Commissions signed by Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln, notifications signed by Jefferson Davis and Julius P. Gauklie. Also copy of oath of office [1 l. transcript (handwritten) by Saunders].

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United States. Artillery. 3d Regiment.

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Saunders, Thomas M., -1864

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James Buchanan, 1791-1868.

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Gauklie, Julius P.

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Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

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Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) was the 14th President of the United States (1853-1857). Prior to his presidency he served in both the House of Representatives (1833-1837) and the Senate (1837-1842) as a legislator from New Hampshire. Although a Northerner, he sympathized with the Southern cause during the American Civil War and was good friends with Jefferson Davis....

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...