Archives International Auctions Sale 50 The Milestone Auction U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, Autographs and Security Printing Ephemera

Archives International Auctions - Sale 50 24 December 3-4,2018 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com 122 122 ANDREW JACKSON. 7th U.S. President. Partly Engraved Document Signed “Andrew Jackson” as President and “Jno H. Eaton” as Secretary of War, 1p, 16.5 by 13 inches. Washington, D.C., March 15, 1831. Future Civil War General Robert E. Clary’s first commission. Appointment of Robert E. Clary as “Second Lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of Infantry…” Patriotic vignettes of an eagle with wings spread at top center and battle flags, cannons, cannon balls, and regiment drum across the bottom. Robert E. Clary (1805-1890), West Point Class of 1828, first served mostly on the Western frontier and in the Second Seminole War. In the Civil War, he was Chief Quartermaster in several army departments until August 1864, when Clary was placed in charge of the Memphis Army Depot, in which capacity he served until the end of the war. Rising to the rank of Brevet Colonel Robert E. Clary and Deputy Quartermaster-General, in 1866, President Andrew appointed Clary Brigadier General by brevet, “for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.” John H. Eaton (1790-1856) was elected by the Tennessee legislature to fill a vacancy and entered the U.S. Senate at age 28 even though the U.S. Constitution requires a Senator to be at least 30 years old – his seating was not opposed and he still is the youngest U.S. Senator in history. Eaton served in the Senate from 1818 to 1829 when he resigned, having been appointed Jackson’s Secretary of War (1829-1831). Eaton later served as Governor of the Territory of Florida (1834-1836) and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain (1836-1840). ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Est. $2000-3000 123 123 BENJAMIN HARRISON. 23rdU.S. President. Partly Printed Letter Signed “Benj Harrison” as President, 1p, 10.5 by 8 inches. Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., June 5, 1889. Removal of Charles B. Howry, Oxford, Mississippi, as U.S. Attorney. Filled out in manuscript. Active in politics as a Democrat, Charles Bowen Howry (1844-1928) was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi in 1885 by fellow Democrat, President Grover Cleveland. Four years later, by the letter here offered, Republican President Benjamin Harrison writes Charles B. Howry, “You are hereby removed from the Office of Attorney of the United States for the Northern District of Mississippi to take effect upon the appointment of your successor.” Defeating Harrison at the next election, President Cleveland appointed Howry as Assistant U.S. Attorney General in 1893. Shortly before leaving office in 1897, Cleveland nominated Charles B. Howry to a seat on the U.S. Court of Claims, a lifetime appointment. Howry retired in 1915. ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $350-700 121 121 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 16th U.S. President. Partly Engraved Document Signed “Abraham Lincoln” as President and “Edwin M. Stanton” as Secretary of War, 1p, 18 by 13.5 inches. Washington, D.C., February 21, 1862. Appointment of N. J. Sappington, later assigned to Elmira Prison to feed captured Confederates, as “Commissary of Subsistence of Volunteers with the rank of Captain.” Paper Seal of the Department of War affixed at upper left. Patriotic vignettes of an eagle with wings spread at top center and flags, weapons, military accouterments, and a regiment horn and drum across the bottom. When Elmira Prison opened in upstate New York in August 1864, Nicholas J. Sappington became Commissary of the prison. In January, 1865, many of the military contracts had to be extended or rewritten. Commissary Sappington had hoped to solve his problem of being able to procure better grades of meat for prisoners by stipulating in the new fresh beef contract for larger stock. Elmira flourmills were extremely busy in 1865. Besides the amount needed for meals, Commissary Sappington was required, as he put it, to keep in excess “about 50,000 pounds of hard bread on hand while the Prisoners were held here in case of any accident to the bake ovens.” Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869) was Buchanan’s Attorney General (1860-1861) and Lincoln and Johnson’s Secretary of War (1862-1868). Johnson’s attempt to remove Stanton from his cabinet led to President Johnson’s impeachment. In 1869, Stanton was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant to be an Associated Justice of the Supreme Court. He died just four days after he was confirmed by the Senate.����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $8000-16000