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I haven't corrected the grammatical issues (which are numerous), but I have deleted the lateral reference to President Lincoln. Of about 1,400 brevets for brigadier generals, Lincoln only signed 58 of them. Despite being a month before the president's assassination, this date appears on the vast majority of commissions for Civil War service, even though those commissions were issued anytime between May of 1865 and March 3, 1869, when an act of congress halted the practice. All commissions with this date were signed by President Johnson. IcarusPhoenix (talk) 18:19, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
