JANUARY 16, 1864:
President
Lincoln personally approves a pardon for Confederate Private John S. Ennis based
on a petition from Unionist Kentucky Congressman Henry Grider. Ennis was also from
Lincoln’s birth State, and both Grider and Ennis came from prominent political
families. Just as he had with ex-Confederate Josiah Pillsbury ten days before, Lincoln
uses the Pardon Power to advance Reconstruction.
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