Signed by Pennsylvania Governor John W. Geary and State Auditor General J.F. Hartranft, dated “First Day of January 1872”. Pre-printed proclamation, 14.25 x 8.75.” Beige w/ornamented olive trim.

This document is a “certificate of Adjudicated claim for War Damages…sustained by the Citizens of Pennsylvania during the late rebellion..,” which certifies  that “William Miller” and been approved for a payment of “Two Hundred and Thirty One  and 40/100  Dollars .”; a claim submitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the United States.

General Hartranft was a prominent officer who served as the Provost Marshall of Washington who read the execution order to the Lincoln conspirators hung July 7, 1865. Governor Geary was a politician who in his pre-war phase had been Mayor of San Francisco, Territorial Governor of Kansas, and then a divisional commander in Slocum’s Corps at Gettysburg, before being elected Pennsylvania Governor in 1867. Hartranft would follow Geary in the PA Governors chair.

An excellent Gettysburg collectible, signed by two prominent Union officers and politician.  [jp]

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