Item #68065 : Original period manufacture. Full size document with War Department letterhead at the top and a dated of June 19th 1865. Signed at the bottom by E.M.Stanton Secretary of War. The document awards George H. Gordon with a Brevet to the rank of Major General. Comes with a certificate of authenticity from JSA Authentication dated 2006. George Henry Gordon, 1823-1886, USMA 1846, served in Mexico under Winfield Scott, and again in the Union Army during the Civil War. He attained the rank of Brigadier General and saw combat at 2nd Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg. Later he was transferred to South Carolina.