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Penned under the official heading of the Office of the Provost Marshal General, Armies operating against Richmond is the following:
The Quartermaster and Provost Marshal will give free transportation , by regular Government Boat or Rail, to I. L. Marshall and to C. B. Chamberlain, to and from the Army of the Potomac, for themselves, and everything necessary in the business as Embalmers, and will respect and not take up this or the regular Pass given them by Secretary of War or the Surgeon General.
[signed] A. Lincoln, Sept. 10,1864 / A true Copy-Irvin B. Wright -1st Lt & A. D. C.
This single sheet penned on Provost Martial stationary by 1st Lt. & A. D. C. Irvin B. Wright, (Serving in the 11th U. S. Regulars and brevetted at Gettysburg, Lt. Wright became Aid DeCamp to Grant’s Provost Gen. Patrick.) was done in the field to provide a true copy record of a pass issued by Lincoln personally and presented by the EMBALMERS I. L. Marshall and C. B. Chamberlain. A copy made necessary as the President had directed that the original not be taken up. The document is entirely original and remains in excellent condition save archival reinforcing tape on the back at the folds. While I. L. Marshall is not familiar to us and will require some additional research, we do know C. B. Chamberlain as a prominent embalming surgeon who worked in and around Gettysburg as an aftermath of the battle. He and his partner at that time (Chamberlain & Layford) appear in a well known staged Gettysburg photo of an embalming. (see: Coffins, Kits, And More! Stories of the Civil War Embalmers by Lee Ward)
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