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THB"Autographs of Eminent Americans," Presentation Document Featuring Signatures of Lincoln, Custer, Grant, & Other Civil War-Era Figures
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Autographs of Eminent Americans, Presentation Document Featuring Signatures of Lincoln, Custer, Grant, & Other Civil War-Era Figures
Original ink and watercolor drawing signed by O.L. Pruden, dated Washington, DC, 1866, featuring at center an Abraham Lincoln clipped signature, surrounded by 11 other signatures of prominent figures from the Civil War era, including cabinet members, congressmen and generals. Namely: Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885); Maj. Gen. George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876); Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873); Sec. of State William H. Seward (1801-1872); Sec. of War Edwin Stanton (1814-1869); Sec. of the Navy Gideon Welles (1802-1878); Sec. of Treasury Hugh McCulloch (1808-1895); Treasurer of the US Francis E. Spinner; US Sen. Charles Sumner (1811-1874); Maj. Gen. Quincy A. Gilmore (1825-1888); and Judge Advocate General of the Army Joseph Holt (1807-1894). 9 x 12 in. (sight), housed in a period frame, 17.25 x 20.25 in. overall.
The piece was drawn and compiled for the original recipient as a token of appreciation for her work with the US Sanitary Commission. The artist, Major Octavius L. Pruden, had come to Washington in 1862 as part of the 11th New Jersey Infantry, but as his New York Times obituary stated, "his exceptional skill with the pen made his services of such value to the Adjutant that he was soon withdrawn from the ranks and assigned to clerical duty. His copies of reports, rivaling steel engravings in artistic finish, attracted attention at headquarters, and when his regiment finally moved he was kept behind and installed in the War Department, and later transferred to the White House." Pruden served as a secretary in the White House from the administration of Pres. Grant until his death in 1902, during the early days of the Theodore Roosevelt administration, and the Times states that he was at every official transaction in the White House during that period, including the nomination of everyone "from a cabinet minister to a postmaster in a country cross-road" and "copies of all the President's messages, annual and incidental."Minor spotting in the corners and along the edges of the mat, else very good.Condition
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