Abraham Lincoln pardoned Biden’s great-great-grandfather

[David Lockmiller]

Gene, I got to thinking.

The Civil War court martial records may have required cataloguing and this would necessarily have included the name of the defendant. Presumably, one could do a database search by the name of the defendant.

All that a historian of Lincoln would need to know is the name of any male relative of President Lincoln living at that time in order to make the database connection by a simple search, I presume.


National Archives
Identifying Case File Numbers
Multiple finding aids to the court-martial case files are available in the Consultation Room (Room G-24) at Archives 1. On-site researchers may search the finding aids by the service member's name. Court-martial case files from the Civil War era (1861–1865) can also be searched by regiment.

Off-site researchers may search NARA's online catalog for a service member's name and then email our staff at archives1reference@nara.gov for additional assistance.

National Archives Court-Martial Case Files, 1809-1917