"Documents reveal Lincoln's pardon of Biden ancestor after Civil War brawl"

Documents reportedly show that President Biden's great-great-grandfather, Moses J. Robinette, was pardoned by Abraham Lincoln after a Civil War-era brawl with a fellow Union Army civilian employee. The court-martial records detail the trial and pardon, linking the two presidents across the centuries and filling in an unknown piece of Biden family history. Biden inherited his middle name from his great-grandfather, and the story serves as a reminder of the many untold Civil War stories.