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Manuscrit appointing Benjamin Alvord as Brigadier General on April 16, 1862. The document is signed by President Abraham Lincoln and the secretary of War Edwin Stanton on April 16, 1862, Washington, DC. Partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, on velum, with wafer seal, creases from folds, minor insect damage on one corner edge (see picture). Measuremtns are 16 inches x 13 inches.
Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General, United States Army, was born at Rutland, Vermont on 18 August 1813. He was a lineal descendant of Alexander Alvord who had settled in Connecticut about 1645.
Alvord entered the United States Military Aademy at the age of 16 and graduated in the class of 1833. For the next twenty-one years he was an officer of the 4th United States Infantry, serving with it continuously except for a two-year tour of duty as as instructor at West Point.
He served in the Florida Seminole War, the Mexican War and on the Western Frontier in the 1850s. He was appointed Brigadier General of Volunteers in April 1862 and placed in command of the Department of Oregon. He died in Washington, D.C. on 16 October 1884 and was buried in Section 4, Grave 2215-WS, of Arlington National Cemetery. (From Arllington National Cemetery website)
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