This collection includes two documents signed by Andrew Johnson and Edward H. East during the Union Army’s occupation of Tennessee in the Civil War for military appointments of Jacob K. Lonas. The first document is dated December 13, 1862 and it appoints Jacob K. Lonas of Knox County as the First Lieutenant of Company 6 in the First Regiment of the East Tennessee Cavalry of the Force of Tennessee Volunteers. The second document is dated July 25, 1864 and it appoints Jacob K. Lonas as the Captain of Company 6 in the First Regiment of Cavalry of Tennessee Volunteers in the service of the United States for three years.