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What I said within for Lieutenant Baker to be a Commissary I now say for him to be a Quarter Master. A. LINCOLN.
Feb 27-1863,
Annotation
[1] AES, owned by Anson M. Henry, Olympia, Washington. Lincoln's endorsement is written on an envelope which at one time contained Lincoln's letter to Taylor, January 31, supra. See also Lincoln's endorsement to Taylor, February 5, supra. Edward D. Baker was appointed captain and assistant quartermaster on March 13, 1863.