Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885) Signed Military Commission, 27 June 1870. Single parchment sheet, engraved and fulfilled by hand, nominating Almond Brown Wells (1842-1912) Captain in the Eighth Regiment of Cavalry, sealed, docketed, and countersigned by William W. Belknap (1829-1890), Grant's Secretary of War; matted and framed with a portrait of Grant, old folds, a few small holes along central vertical fold, 18 x 14 1/2 in. Wells rose to the rank of Brigadier-General, serving in the Civil War, and made the long march from Fort Davis, Texas, to Fort Meade, South Dakota; he fought in the Sioux Indian campaign in South Dakota in the 1890s, served in Cuba, and later in the Far East during the Boxer Rebellion.
Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885) Signed Military Commission, 27 June 1870. Single parchment sheet, engraved and fulfilled by hand, nominating Almond Brown Wells (1842-1912) Captain in the Eighth Regiment of Cavalry, sealed, docketed, and countersigned by William W. Belknap (1829-1890), Grant's Secretary of War; matted and framed with a portrait of Grant, old folds, a few small holes along central vertical fold, 18 x 14 1/2 in. Wells rose to the rank of Brigadier-General, serving in the Civil War, and made the long march from Fort Davis, Texas, to Fort Meade, South Dakota; he fought in the Sioux Indian campaign in South Dakota in the 1890s, served in Cuba, and later in the Far East during the Boxer Rebellion.
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