?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SIGNED AS SECRETARY OF WAR AD INTERIM AFTER JOHNSON'S DISMISSAL OF STANTON GRANT, ULYSSES S. Partly-printed Letter Signed, "U.S. Grant," as Acting Secretary of War, to Watson B. Smith, informing him of his appointment as Colonel of Volunteers by brevet. 1 page, 4to, with integral blank; last portion of Grant's signature retraced likely by himself, one-inch horizontal strip at lower edge cut away and reattached with paper repair on verso affecting paraph of Grant's signature (without loss), detached blank reattached at left edge recto with paper, two small closed holes in left margin, folds, faint stain at lower right. Washington, 10 October 1867
