Captain of the Wabash Invincibles June 8 1846

              EAGLE SYMBOL 
 
 
 
J A M E S   W H I T C O M B, 
 
 
 
Governor of the State of Indiana, and commander-in-chief of the militia thereof, 
 
 
  
   TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS --- GREETING, 
 
 
 
   Whereas, It has been certified to me by the proper authority that Robert H. Milroy  
has been duly elected to the office of  Captain of the company called the Wabash 
Invincibles in the Indiana Volunteers  and  in the 
Said State under the Act of Congress, “An Act providing for the prosecution of the existing War between 
the United States and the Republic of Mexico,” approved May 13, 1846. 
 
 
 
   Therefore Know Ye, that in the name and by the authority of the said State, I do  
hereby commission him the 
said    Robert H. Milroy  Captain 
as aforesaid in the said  Company, to serve from the date hereof until the expiration 
of the term of service of said 
   Company  ,  if he shall so long behave well. 
 
 
 
 
In Testimony Whereof,  I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be    
                                  affixed the Seal of the State, at Indianapolis, the   Eighth 
                                  day of     June    in the year of our Lord 1846, the thirtieth 
                                  year of the State, and of the United States the seventieth. 
 
 
 
        BY THE GOVERNOR                    
 
 
 Jas Whitcomb 
 
 
 
Jno. H. Thompson     Secretary of State 
 
 
 
 
(pencil notation on bottom) 
This is my commission as Capt of Co. C 
in the 1st Regt. Ind. Vol. Inf. In the 
War with Mexico