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Condition: Very good. [Washington, D.C.], May 5, 1866., 1866. Very good. - Over 85 words penned in a secretarial hand on 2 pages of a 9-7/8 inch high by 7-3/4 inch wide "Treasury Department" stationery with an integral attached leaf. Hartley replies to Senator John Sherman of Ohio who has recommended Thomas Murdock Esq. for the position of Local Inspector of Steamboats at Cincinnati, Ohio that "there is no vacancy in the District you desire Mr. Murdock to be appointed." Signed "John F. Hartley" as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Folded for mailing, the document is docketed by Senator Sherman on the verso. There is a stain from a seal at the top inner corner of the integral leaf with a very small chip. Very good. John F. Hartley (1809-1897) served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1865 to 1875 under Presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant.…

JOHNSON, Andrew and STANTON, Edwin. Document signed with stamped signatures (Military Commission). Washington, D.C.: April 15, 1867. Folio, single engraved sheet of vellum (16 by 19-1/2 inches), finished in manuscript. $1800.Fine military commission, fully engraved on vellum and finished in manuscript, appointing James Gillette as captain in the 15th Regiment of Infantry, with the official stamped signatures of both President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.The 15th Regiment of Infantry was activated during the Civil War on May 3, 1861. By the end of the war, the regiment had fought in 22 major engagements, including Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, and Atlanta as a part of Brigadier General John KingÕs Army regulars of JohnstonÕs Division, 14th Army Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. ÒThe Regiment was a key element of the only Regular Brigade in ShermanÕs ArmyÓ (H.R. Brinkerhoff). Captain and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel James Gillette served as Commissary of Subsistence of the Western District of Mississippi and the Post of Vicksburgh. He was appointed Brevet Major in 1869. ÒEdwin Stanton was one of the central political figures of the Civil War era and one of the most controversial. His principal role was as chief manager under the president of the Union war effortÉ and his immense energy and organizational talent made possible the mobilization of the NorthÕs vast resources to achieve victoryÉ StantonÕs strongest commitment was to preserve the Union, and his tenacious efforts during the early stages of Reconstruction to sustain the army and reverse President JohnsonÕs policy of leniency toward the former Confederates did much to redeem the sacrifices of the warÓ (ANB). Docketed by the Assistant Adjutant General, E.D. Townsend (with the marginal annotation, in another hand, ÒRecorded Volume 18, page 278, Adjutant GeneralÕs Office, April 15, 1867Ó). With large ornamental vignettes of the American Eagle at top and military flags and regalia at bottom. Embossed paper seal affixed. Fine condition, with only a few minor spots. Signed.…

With large engraved headpiece of the American eagle, and large tailpiece of a flag-draped battlefied. Accomplished in a secretarial hand and countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. 1 vols. Folio (15 3/4 x 19 in.). Promoting Adrian Terry to Lieutenant-Colonel, "for faithful and efficient services during the war, and for gallant conduct in the field.". With the blue Presidential seal. Docketed in upper left corner by the Asst. Adjutant General E. Townsend. Matted and framed With large engraved headpiece of the American eagle, and large tailpiece of a flag-draped battlefied. Accomplished in a secretarial hand and countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. 1 vols. Folio (15 3/4 x 19 in.).…

framed. Condition: very good. Document signed by President Andrew Johnson in 1868, authorizing Henry M. Watts "to treat with the government of Austria". Through the appointment Watts became the 6th United States Minister to Austria-Hungary. Document is mounted in a large frame 22 1/2 x 15 1/2" along side a etched reproduction of Johnson. Andrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. The 16th vice president, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson was a War Democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket in the 1864 presidential election, coming to office as the American Civil War concluded. Johnson favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union without protection for the newly freed people who were formerly enslaved, as well as pardoning ex-Confederates. This led to conflict with the Republican Party-dominated U.S. Congress, culminating in his impeachment by the House of Representatives in 1868. He was acquitted in the Senate by one vote.…

Document signed, Washington, July 25, 1868, naming H. Burnham ?Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Second District of California.? Just two months earlier, Johnson had been acquitted in his famous impeachment trial.