LINCOLN ABRAHAM Partly printed vellum Document Signed as Pre

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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, military commission appointing Levi Ward Smith Hospital Chaplain. Countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. 19 3/4x16 inches; faint foxing and few tiny holes at folds, docketing at upper left recto, paper seal intact, Lincoln signature bold. Washington, 24 March 1863

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Levi Ward Smith (d.1863) served in the NY State Assembly, 1849-50, and as Adjutant-General for NY Governor Washington Hunt, 1851-52, before becoming a Protestant Episcopal minister. Smith was appointed Hospital Chaplin in March of 1863, taking charge of the military hospital at Germantown, PA, only to perish from disease 9 months later.