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| Lot # 18 PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT - MILITARY APPOINTMENT SIGNED 03/06/1869 CO-SIGNED BY:JOHN A. RAWLINS , GENERAL EDWARD DAVIS TOWNSEND - Document 27416 |
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ULYSSES S. GRANT and JOHN A. RAWLINS
The new President reappoints a Lieutenant Colonel whose promotion was not
reviewed by the Senate when President Johnson had submitted it 12 days
earlier.
Partly Printed DS: "U.S. Grant" as 18th U.S. President and
"Jno. A. Rawlins" as Secretary of War, 1p, 15½x19. Washington,
D.C., 1869 March 6. In part: "Know Ye, That reposing special trust and
confidence in the patriotism, valor, fidelity, and abilities of Daniel Huston
Jr. I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate do
appoint him Lieutenant Colonel of the Sixth Regiment of Infantry in the service
of the United States: to rank as such from the twenty-second day of February
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine...." DANIEL HUSTON, JR. was an 1848
West Point graduate brevetted Second Lieutenant attached to the Infantry Arm of
the Corps of Engineers as of July 1, 1848. Slowly moving up in rank, Major
Huston was transferred from the 11th to the 23rd Infantry, Sixth Regiment of
Infantry, on December 23, 1868. On February 22, 1869, President Andrew
Johnson had nominated Huston to be Lieutenant-Colonel, promoted to the Tenth
Infantry. No action was taken by the Senate, whose majority had voted to convict
the President in his impeachment trial just nine months earlier. By this
document, President Grant, on his third day in office, appointed Huston to the
same rank, from the date of Johnson's nomination, this time "with the
advice and consent of the Senate". JOHN A. RAWLINS, at 30, was the youngest
member of General Grant's staff when he joined it in 1861 and, at 38, was the
youngest member of Grant's Cabinet when he was sworn in as Secretary of War on
March 9, 1869. He died just six months later at 38. Yellow stained and
creased at bottom blank margin. 1x¼-inch green stain at bottom edge. Folds,
horizontal fold touches the top of the "U", "S" and "t" in Grant's signature.
Vertical fold touches the "w" in Rawlins. Nailhead-size red stain above eagle
vignette. ½x1/8-inch slit at blank horizontal fold.
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