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[1] ALS, IHi. Meigs endorsed ``Request the adjt Genl to order Capt B to report to Capt Potter as an asst in the discharge of his duties. . . .'' See Lincoln to Dubois and others, May 29, supra. Captain Joseph A. Potter, chief quarter-master at Chicago, wrote Edward L. Baker at Springfield, Illinois, on September 28, 1863, that he ``would really like to have him [Bailhache] ordered to report to me here in Chicago'' (DLC-RTL), but Bailhache was ordered to act temporarily as chief quartermaster of the Twenty-third Corps in Burnside's command (Mrs. Ada Bailhache to Lincoln, October 8, 1863, DLC-RTL).