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[1] AES, DNA WR RG 153, Judge Advocate General, Letters Received, No. 136. Lincoln's endorsement is written on the back of a telegram from Governor Beriah Magoffin to John J. Crittenden, March 24, 1862, asking a suspension of the sentence of his brother Ebenezer Magoffin, until ``I can get it fairly before them [Lincoln and Stanton]. I think I can prove. . . he is innocent.'' On February 20, 1862, a military commission had sentenced Ebenezer Magoffin to death on a charge of violation of parole, after finding him not guilty on a charge of murder. Lincoln ordered the sentence suspended, and in April Lee recommended dismissal of the sentence and release on parole. The prisoner subsequently escaped at Alton, Illinois, on July 24, 1862 (OR, II, I, 283-374 and II, IV, 487-89). See also Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck, April 9, infra.