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Document 13017

GROVER CLEVELAND and HILARY A. HERBERT
Appointment of an Assistant Engineer in the Navy.
Partly Printed DS: "Grover Cleveland" as 24th U.S. President and "H.A. Herbert" as Secretary of the Navy, 1p, 15½x19. On vellum. In part: "Know Ye, that, reposing special Trust and Confidence in the Patriotism, Valour, Fidelity and Abilities of Charles R. Emrich, I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him an Assistant Engineer in the Navy, with the relative rank of Ensign from the 1st day of July 1893, in the service of the United States...." At the time President Cleveland signed this document the Navy was entering into an era of growth. The Navy focused on developing its intelligence, training its men and building ships that could hold heavy, powerful artillery. A small "new navy" of twenty-one modern war crafts was well prepared to meet the Spanish in war in 1898. In the Civil War, HILARY ABNER HERBERT (1834-1919) entered the Confederate service as Captain of the Greenville Guards. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel of the Eighth Regiment, Alabama Infantry and saw action at the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, where he was wounded and disabled. He represented Alabama as a Democrat in Congress from 1877-1893, when he became President Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy (1893-1897). Lightly creased. Vertical fold touches the second "er" of Herbert's signature. Stained at lower left blank corner, chipped at right edge in bottom right corner. Embossed impression at all blank margins from prior framing (no discoloration). Overall, fine condition.

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