CIVIL WAR GENERAL COLONEL STAFF of 5 GENLS DIPLOMAT FRANCE KING DOCUMENT SIGNED!

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ADAM ECKFELDT KING
(1837 – 1910)
CIVIL WAR UNION BVT BRIGADIER GENERAL
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US VOLUNTEERS, FOR "
GALLANTRY DURING THE CAMPAIGN OF 1864 AND DISTINGUISHED GOOD CONDUCT THROUGHOUT THE WAR
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LT. COLONEL SERVING ON THE STAFF OF FIVE (5) GENERALS, INCLUDING WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK, AUGUR and RICKETTS
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US DIPLOMAT – APPOINTED CONSUL-GENERAL of PARIS, FRANCE by PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON 1890-1893.
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HERE'S A CIVIL WAR ERA DOCUMENT SIGNED BY KING – A “HEAD-QUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DEPARTMENT – SPECIAL ORDERS No. 32” dated at Baltimore, Maryland, Feb. 9
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, 1866, mustering out of service Pvt Joseph R. Woodruff, Co. G, 1
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US Veteran Volunteers;
Detailing Pvt. Eli Vance, 4
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Regiment, U. S. Artillery to extra duty; appointing Lt. Colonel M. F. Gallagher, 7
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U.S.V.V. to command the Post of Philadelphia, replacing Colonel P. P. Brown; removing the desertion charge against Private James H. Bird, Battery H, 2
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PA Veteran Artillery, etc.
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By command of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock
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The document measures 7” x 8½” and is in very good condition, with age toning, which is common on his signed orders.
A RARE ADDITION TO YOUR CIVIL WAR
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GENERALS IN BLUE
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GEN.
ADAM ECKFELDT KING
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He entered the Union Army during the Civil War when he was commissioned as a 1st Lieutenant in Company E, 31st New York Volunteer Infantry on January 2, 1862. He served with the unit through the next year, and until he was tabbed for staff duty. On March 11, 1863 he was mustered out of the regiment, and mustered into the Adjutant General Department as a Captain of Volunteers. He would go on to serve duty with five different Union Generals, being an Assistant Adjutant General on the staffs of, in succession, Brigadier Generals Calvin E. Pratt, Henry D. Terry, and James B. Ricketts, and Major Generals Christopher C. Augur and Winfield Scott Hancock. Promoted to Major on July 15, 1864 and Lieutenant Colonel on January 19, 1865, he was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "gallantry during the campaign of 1864 and distinguished good conduct throughout the war". After the end of the conflict he became a United States Customs official, and served as United States Consul-General in Paris, France from 1890 to 1893.
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