Some presidential pardons are turkeys, sure. But a newly discovered one has echoed through the centuries to be particularly meaningful to the current president. On Sept. 1, 1864,.
Some presidential pardons are turkeys, sure. But a newly discovered one has echoed through the centuries to be particularly meaningful to the current president. On Sept. 1, 1864, an order from President Abraham Lincoln freed Moses Robinette from a military prison where he was incarcerated after being court-martialed over a fight in a Union Army camp during the Civil War. Robinette was President Biden’s great-great-grandfather. David J. Gerleman, a historian, documents the case in the , using National Archives records. The tale is „an unknown piece of Biden family history,“ Gerleman says, as well as untold Civil War story.
The fight was between Robinette and another civilian employee of the Army, John Alexander, who took issue with something he overheard Biden’s ancestor say to a cook in a mess tent in March 1864.
