United States. An 1862 Military Commission, Signed by Abraham Lincoln Province of China A United States Army certificate

A United States Army certificate of discharge for Karl Hogen

Footnote: According to Sascha Weber’s 2008 “The Infantry Assault Badges”

clearing the limited beachheads of snipers and machine guns

The sweatband is leather and is finished in chocolate brown

United States. An 1862 Military Commission, Signed by Abraham Lincoln Province of China A United States Army certificateAn engraved broadside measuring 470 mm (l) x 340 mm (w), appointing William H. Forbes to Commissioner of Subsistence of Volunteers with the rank of Captain, Washington, 9 November, 1862. It was recorded by the Adjutant Generals Office on 10 March 1863. This letter is signed by the Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, and Abraham Lincoln, as 16th President of the United States. The letter is accompanied by two table medals, bearing the profile of Abraham