348. ULYSSES S. GRANT Scarce partly-printed D.S. "U.S. Grant" as President, 1p. folio parchment, Washington, June 12, 1874, a promotion of Edward A. Walker to serve as "Commander in the Navy", signed at lower-right by Grant. Co-signed by Secretary of the Navy GEORGE M. ROBESON. Light soiling and folds, otherwise very good and quite scarce in this form. On Sep. 21, 1861, Midshipman Walker commanded a vessel which captured the Confederate sloop Maryland, part of a large Confederate naval force concentrated on the south bank of the Potomac below Alexandria. $1,000 - 1,200