Certificate on Parchment Conferring Upon Zealous B. Tower the Rank of Major General, issued 7th April 1866 and signed by 17th President of the United States, Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, inscribed upper left corner as “Recorded Volume 4, page 71, Adjutant General’s Office, April 7, 1866,” signed by E. D. Townsend, Asst. Adjt. Gen. and applied with embossed blue paper seal of the War Office, “For Gallant and Meritorious Service During War.” Zealous B. Tower hailed from Cohassett, Massachusetts, a Union soldier, he was born in 1819 and died in 1900.
20 in. x 15 ½ in.