Abraham Lincoln pardoned Biden’s great-great-grandfather

[David Lockmiller]

(02-20-2024 06:25 AM)Gene C Wrote:  I wonder what the source was that inspired the authors research

The details are in the article:

The Washington Post
By David J. Gerleman
February 19, 2024

But the slender sheaf of 22 well-preserved pages of his trial transcript, unobtrusively squeezed among many hundreds of other routine court-martial cases in the National Archives, reveals the hidden link between the two men — and between two presidents across the centuries. Those few pages not only fill in an unknown piece of Biden family history but also serve as a reminder of just how many Civil War stories have yet to be told.

David J. Gerleman is a 19th-century historian, Lincoln scholar and history instructor at George Mason University.