Promotion of Nathaniel C. McLean to Brigadier General of Volunteers - American History 1493-1945 - Adam Matthew Digital

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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC01740.01
From Archive Folder	Unassociated Civil War Documents 1863
Title	Promotion of Nathaniel C. McLean to Brigadier General of Volunteers
Date	4 April 1863
Author	Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Document Type	Military document
Content Description	Official document promoting McLean, signed by President Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Partially printed from an engraving, with blanks filled in by hand. This item was accompanied by maps.
Subjects	President Military History Union Forces Union General 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
Sub-collection	Papers and Images of the American Civil War
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 NC. McLean I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him Brigadier General of Volunteers, in the service of the United States: to rank as such from the twenty ninth day of November, eighteen hundred and Sixty two. He is therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Brigadier General 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 Brigadier General 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 Fourth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Sixty three and in the Eighty seventh year of the Independence of the United States. By the President, Abraham Lincoln Edwin M Stanton Secretary of War. [docket]

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