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Telegram To Officer In Command At Harper's Ferry. Executive Mansion, Washington, February 17, 1865 OFFICER IN COMMAND AT HARPER'S FERRY: Chaplain Fitzgibbon yesterday sent me a despatch invoking Clemency for Jackson, Stewart, and Randall, who are to be shot to-day. The despatch is so vague that there is no means here of ascertaining whether or not the execution of sentence of one or more of them may not already have been ordered. If not suspend execution of sentence m their cases until further orders and forward records of trials for examination. A. LINCOLN MAJOR ECKERT: Please send above telegram JNO. G. NICOLAY.