“While we were marching through Georgia”: President Abraham Lincoln Awards a General’s Rank to Langdon C. Easton, Sherman’s Quartermaster General in the Victorious Georgia Campaign

We obtained this directly from the Easton descendants and it has never before been offered for sale

Langdon C. Easton graduated at the U. S. Military Academy in 1838. He served in the Florida and Mexican wars, and during the Civil War. He was Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Cumberland from December 1863, until May 1864, and of the armies commanded by Major General William T. Sherman from May 4, 1864, until the war’s end, being present during the operations of the campaign from Chattanooga to the taking of Atlanta, and subsequently at the capture of Savannah. On the march from the latter city to Goldsborough, NC, and thence to Washington, DC, via Raleigh and Richmond, General Easton acted in the same capacity. During the war he was brevetted major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general, “for distinguished and important service in the quartermaster’s department in the campaign terminating in the capture of Atlanta, Georgia,” and major general, March 13, 1865, “for meritorious service during the war.”

This is Easton’s commission as brigadier general, relating directly to the momentous Georgia campaign, and obtained by us from the Easton descendants. It has never before been offered for sale. Document signed, with an eagle, stars, flags and cannon, Washington, March 23, 1865, just weeks before Lincoln’s death, promoting Easton to the rank of brigadier general, effective retroactively to September 17, 1864, “for distinguished and important service in the quartermaster’s department in the campaign terminating in the capture of Atlanta, Georgia.” The document is countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

This is one of the most interesting and important Lincoln appointments we have ever carried.

Acquired directly from the descendants and never before offered for sale.