Newly Discovered Documents Reveal Joe Biden’s Great-Great Grandfather Was Pardoned by Abraham Lincoln After Allegedly Committing a Violent Crime
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Newly uncovered documents reveal Joe Biden has an interesting connection to Abraham Lincoln and a personal reason to be thankful for his Presidency.
Historian David J. Gerleman wrote in theWashington Post Monday that Biden’s great-great-grandfather, Moses J. Robinette, was pardoned by President Lincoln after being charged with murder following a particularly violent incident. He discovered this shocking detail after reviewing 22 pages of a court martial transcript.
The charge came after a Robinette got into a brawl with fellow Union Army civilian employee John J. Alexander on March 21, 1864, in the Army of the Potomac’s winter camp in Virginia. Gerleman reports during the fight with Alexander, Robinette pulled out his pocket knife and slashed the man several times before others stepped in to stop the carnage.
