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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President,
military commission appointing George Drake First Lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment of
Infantry. Countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. 19
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Washington, 1 July 1864
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