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Partly-printed vellum DS as president, signed “M. Van Buren,” one page, 12 x 7, April 28, 1838. President Van Buren appoints Joel S. Kennard as a “Midshipman in the Navy of the United States.” Signed at the conclusion by Martin Van Buren and countersigned by Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickerson. The left side is embossed with the Navy Department seal. In very good to fine condition, with vertical folds, and scattered light foxing and soiling.
Joel S. Kennard was born in Alabama and served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy before he resigned on April 23, 1861. He was appointed First Lieutenant in the Confederate Navy on April 27, 1861, and served as the commanding officer of several Confederate ships in the Savannah Squadron from 1862 to 1864. Before commanding the Macon, Kennard served as commander of the Isondiga, a wooden gunboat that accompanied the ironclad CSS Atlanta on several of her missions. The Isondiga was present to support the Atlanta during her disastrous defeat at Wassaw Sound in May 1863. Kennard was transferred to commanding officer of the Macon in June of 1864, where he remained until the end of the war.
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