Partly-printed vellum DS, signed “Franklin Pierce" as president and "Jeffer. Davis" as secretary of war, one page, 12.75 x 16.5, August 4, 1854. President Pierce appoints Judson D. Bingham as a "Second Lieutenant in the Second Regiment of Artillery in the service of the United States." Signed at the conclusion by President Franklin Pierce and countersigned by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. The beige paper seal remains affixed to the upper left. Matted and framed to an overall size of 19.25 x 23.25. In very good condition, with somewhat heavy overall wrinkling, and fading to Davis' signature.
New York native Judson David Bingham graduated from West Point in 1854. He took part in the suppression of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859, and during the Civil War served in charge of trains and supplies of General Banks's command in Maryland in 1861, of tile quartermaster's depot at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1862-63, and as chief quartermaster of the Army of the Tennessee. He took part in the Siege of Vicksburg and the invasion of Georgia. On April 9, 1865, he was brevetted Brigadier-General for faithful and meritorious services during the rebellion.
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