...in their efforts to secure a fair trial for Captain Beall; but it was of no avail. Secretary Seward's edict had gone forth that Beall must hang. Mrs. John I. Sittings and Mrs. Basil B. Gordon, of Baltimore , interceded in behalf of the heroic Beall. Numbers of Congressmen signed a petition for Beall's pardon, but President Lincoln turned a deaf ear to all appeals for clemency. So the fatal da...