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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC01128
From Archive Folder	Documents Relating to the 1860s
Title	Commission of Orville Babcock as a First Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers
Date	26 March 1862
Author	Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Additional authors	Stanton, Edwin McMasters (1814-1869)
Document Type	Military document
Content Description	Partially printed form from an engraving signed by President Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. With a note signed by Adjutant G. Thomas indicating the commission was recorded on 27 March 1862 in "Volume 17. Page 70." With a blue seal intact. Babcock was later U.S. Grant's aide.
Subjects	President Union Forces Military History Civil War
People	Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Stanton, E. M. (Edwin McMasters) (1814-1869)
Place written	Washington, D.C.
Theme	The American Civil War; The Presidency; Government & Politics
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Transcript	Show/hide To all who shall see these presents greeting: Know Ye; That reposing special trust and confidence in the patriotism, valor, fidelity, and abilities of Orville E. Babcock I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him First Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers, in the service of the United States: to rank as such from the Seventeenth day of November, eighteen hundred and Sixty one He is therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of First Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And I do strictly charge, and require all Officers and Soldiers under his command, to be obedient to his orders as First Lieutenant And he is to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future President of the United States of America, or the General, or other superior Officers set over him, according to the rules and discipline of War. This Commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United States, for the time being. GIVEN under my hand, at the City of Washington, this Twenty Sixth day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Sixty two and in the Eighty sixth year of the Independence of the United States. By the President, Abraham Lincoln Edwin M Stanton Secretary of War. [docket] Recorded. Volume 17. Page 70. March 27, 1862 L. Thomas Adjt. Genl

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