I Remain

Holograph, signed. Also, the verso is date-stamped and marked as "Executive Department, State of R.I." and signed Charles E. Bailey. There are notes on the verso about forwarding the recommendation letter and forming a commission.

Beecher states that Major King is a young lawyer who served in the war with "great gallantry" and "returns to the duties of peace bringing with him a tried integrity, industry & intelligence." The brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher was a social reformer and a minister who opposed slavery and campaigned for Lincoln prior to the Civil War.