ABRAHAM LINCOLN * PSA * Autograph 1861 War APPOINTMENT Signed SHILOH Soldier ALAN SHEPARD museum-quality piece of early American

museum-quality piece of early American Presidential history

In the letter Grant writes to Francis Thurber accepting his invitation to a fair to be held in New York City later that year

leaving a conspicuously vacant chair at the official Inauguration ceremony

The page has been encapsulated inside PSA/DNA's proprietary sonically-sealed slab

Clinton pens the following:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN * PSA * Autograph 1861 War APPOINTMENT Signed SHILOH Soldier ALAN SHEPARD museum-quality piece of early American16th President of the United States, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, autograph Civil War date military appointment for James Curtis in handsome, framed display. Dated August 19, 1861, Lincoln appoints Curtis to the rank of "First Lieutenant in the Fifteenth Regiment of Infantry in the Service of the United States", and signs the appointment with full signature as "Abraham Lincoln". Countersigned by Simon Cameron as Secretary of War. With intact original green paper