Letter from U.S. Representative John A. Kasson (Republican, Iowa) to Abraham Lincoln recommending promotion of Brigadier General Grenville M. Dodge to the office of Major General. Kasson notes Dodge "has long had at Corinth a Maj. General's…
Petition to Abraham Lincoln from 224 officers of the XVI Army Corps division stationed in Corinth, Mississippi requesting the promotion of Brigadier General Grenville M. Dodge to major general. August 8, 1863. Dodge commanded the division, which…
Letter from John F. Dillon (Iowa District Court, Davenport, Iowa) to Abraham Lincoln recommending promotion of Brigadier General Grenville M. Dodge to major general. August 3, 1863. Dillon was a prominent Iowa jurist and future Iowa Supreme Court…
Petition from Col. James R. Black and other field officers of the 2nd Division (District of Eastern Arkansas) to Abraham Lincoln recommending appointment of Brigadier General Alvin P. Hovey to the office of Major General of U.S. Volunteers. January…
Commission of Grenville M. Dodge as Brigadier General of U.S. Volunteers, signed by Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. March 31, 1862. Dodge, a railroad surveyor and Council Bluff lawyer before the Civil War, began his wartime…
Commission of Thomas J. McKean as Brigadier General of U.S. Volunteers, signed by Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. February 6, 1862. McKean was a West Point graduate (1831), military officer (1831-1834, 1837-1838), and, as an…
Abraham Lincoln's endorsement of a request to transfer Lieutenant Thomas Drummond from the 5th U.S. Cavalry to an Iowa regiment, elsehwere identified as the 4th Iowa Cavalry, as a Lieutenant Colonel. Autograph Endorsement Signed.
