(1828 – 1896) Union brigadier general, wounded in action at Mechanicsville by a gunshot to the cheek, resigning his commission in 1863. Pratt served as Supreme Court Justice postwar until his death. A war-date manuscript D.S. ‘C. E. Pratt’, 1p. oblong folio, [n.p., ca. Dec. 1, 1862], an inventory and inspection report for a set of ‘Platform Scales’ which have been condemned and abandoned by the 6th Maine Volunteers. Pratt signs approving the inventory in black ink at the conclusion, adding his rank ‘Brig Genl Vols Comg’. On the verso, another hand adds a note explaining the contents and giving the date listed above, which falls in the brief window between which Pratt was made Brigadier General in September 1862 and his resignation in 1863, making his signature at this rank rare. Shows original folds, else in fine condition overall.