Edwin Stanton, Partly Printed Document Signed, War Department Stationery

Description

Edwin Stanton signs the Appointment of Maine abolitionist Adelbert Ames to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the 24th Regiment, U.S. Infantry. The regiment was one of the first four Buffalo Soldier regiments established after Civil War’s end. 

Ames fought with distinction during the Civil War, rising to the rank of Brevet Major General and earning the Congressional Medal of Honor for continuing his command after being severely wounded at First Bull Run.  He was soon appointed Reconstructionist Governor of Georgia, a post he had to flee under threats of death.  He was the penultimate general officer to die, at the age of 97 in 1933.  Excellent Association!

(Lincoln Cabinet) Stanton, Edwin M. Partly Printed Document (accomplished in manuscript), Signed on War Department letterhead, Washington:  16 August 1866.

*The following Signatures for Cabinet members are also available individually – please contact the shop for details:  Edward Bates; William Blair; Simon Cameron; William Dennison; William Fessenden; Hugh McCullough; William Seward; Caleb Smith; Gideon Welles. We also have albumen cdv photographs for some of them.