To Edwin M. Stanton1Jump to section
My dear Sir: Washington, March. 1, 1864.
A poor widow, by the name of Baird, has a son in the Army, that for some offence has been sentenced to serve a long time without pay, or at most, with very little pay. I do not like this punishment of withholding pay---it falls so very hard upon poor families. After he has been serving in this way for several months, at the tearful appeal of the poor Mother, I made a direction that he be allowed to enlist for a new term, on the same conditions as others. She now comes, and says she can not get it acted upon. Please do it. Yours truly A LINCOLN
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[1] ALS, IHi. See Lincoln to Stanton, August 12, 1863, supra. Isaac P. Baird was transferred to the One Hundred Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers on July 19, 1864, and served until discharged on May 30, 1865.