JANUARY 4, 1864:
President
Lincoln pardons Josiah Pillsbury, Auditor of the Confederate State of Kentucky,
of treason against the United States. Pillsbury was one of only five State
Government officers in Confederate Kentucky. Pillsbury, a well-known and
popular man in Lincoln’s State of birth had several high-ranking Union men
supporting his petition, and Lincoln had always been of the opinion that
treating Kentucky with kid gloves was the linchpin to winning the war. Lincoln issued
324 pardons as President, with only 64 of them relating to service for the
Confederacy. Pillsbury’s is one of just 17 pardons for treason that Lincoln issued
to a Confederate.
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