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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC00639.09 |
From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1864 |
Title | Ulysses S. Grant to Abraham Lincoln requesting a promotion for Theodore S. Bowers |
Date | 24 August 1864 |
Author | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885) |
Additional authors | Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Townsend, Edward Davis (1817-1893) |
Recipient | Lincoln, Abraham |
Document Type | Correspondence; Military document |
Content Description | Grant requests a promotion for Theodore S. Bowers, which Lincoln approves with his own signature. Grant wishes that Bowers be promoted from Lieutenant Colonel in the volunteer army to the Adjutant General's Department in the regular army. For this to be accomplished he must first be promoted to a lower post in the regular army, which Grant requests be done. Lincoln's autograph endorsement on docket reads "Let General Grant be obliged in the matter within," agreeing to the promotion. Also, signed and dated by Lincoln. Docket also includes an autograph signed endorsement discussing this possible promotion, written by Edward D. Townsend of the Adjutant General's Office. |
Subjects | President Civil War Military History Union Forces Union General |
People | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885) Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Townsend, Edward Davis (1817-1893) Stanton, E. M. (Edwin McMasters) (1814-1869) Bowers, Theodore Shelton (1832-1866) |
Place written | City Point, Virginia |
Theme | The American Civil War; Government & Politics; The Presidency |
Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
Additional Information | Theodore S. Bowers was a Lieutenant Colonel in the volunteer army, and Grant's Assistant Adjutant General. In March 1865 he was Breveted Brigadier General in the regular army. Edward D. Townsend was a Union Officer in the Adjutant General's Department, who rose to be breveted Major General. |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
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