Manuscripts
Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C., military commission to Thomas William Sweeny
- Description
Document signed; printed form, filled in. Commission as Captain in the United States Army; signed by Lincoln and Secretary of War Simon Cameron. (1 page)
- Date
- 1861 March 19
- Call number
- SW 259
- Provenance
- Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Lambert Lincolniana collection, January and April 1914.
- Purchased from Judd Stewart, 1922.
- Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Lambert Civil War collection, March 1914.
- Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Mark P. Robinson collection, February-March 1918.
- Purchased from William K. Bixby, 1918.
- Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Hale-Hunter sale, January 1917.
- Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Huntington-Bixby sale, March 1, 1917.
