RAWLINS, JOHN AARON (1831-69) Union Brigadier General; Close friend, confidant, and staff officer to General Ulysses S. Grant; U.S. Secretary of War - 1869

Signed Card, 2 ½” x 4”, March 22, 1869, Washington, D.C., “John A. Rawlins,” as U.S. Secretary of War.  The recipient’s name, date, just nine days after he assumed office as secretary or war, and Rawlins’s title are accomplished in an unidentified clerical hand.

Excellent overall, with old mounting remnants on the reverse.