IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF
The Commonwealth of Kentucky,
{KENTUCKY
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL}
THOMAS E. BRAMLETTE,
GOVERNOR OF SAID COMMONWEALTH
To all whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

Know Ye, That S A Miller having been duly appointed to the office of
— First Lieutenant Junior (4 Battery) —

In the 1s Artillery Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Militia, organized under the Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth, and to be mustered into the service of the United States:

NOW KNOW YOU, That, by the powers vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of said State, and reposing special trust and confidence in your patriotism, valor, fidelity, and ability, I do, by these presents Commission you as 1^st Lieutenant as aforsaid, for the term of one year unless sooner discharged, upon condition that you take the oath indorsed hereon, within ten days form receipt hereof, sending a certificate thereof to General Headquarters; and I do hereby authorize and require you to discharge, all and singular, the duties and services appertaining to your said office, agreeably to law and general regulations, and to obey such orders and instructions as you shall, from time to time, receive from your superior officers.

{SEAL OF KENTUCKY
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL}

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and caused the seal of the State of Kentucky to be affixed, at Frankfort, the eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty=three and in the eighty=eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

Tho E Bramlette
BY THE GOVERNOR:
E L VanWinkle, Secretary of State.
Commonwealth Office — WM. E. HUGHES, State Printer.

OATH.

I Samuel A Miller do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully support the Constitution of theUnited States and the Constitution of the State of Kentucky, and will discharge, all and singular, the duties and services appertaining to the office of 1^st Lieutenant in the Kentucky Volunteer Militia, agreeably to law and generas regulations, and will obey such orders and instructions as I shall from time to time receive from the proper officers.

Samuel A. Miller

Before me, personally appeared the above Sam^l A Miller and made the oath above written, and signed the same in my presence.

James H Tinsley 1^st Lieut & Adjt 49th Ky. Vol.
January 1^st A. D. 1864.

4: Batty

Miller S. A.
1 Lieut Jr.

Com cancelled by order of the Governor to take effect from date of Commission

May 12. 1864.