President 's great-great grandfather got released from a southern island prison during the Civil War after an intervention by a sympathetic senator and a presidential pardon by Abraham Lincoln, newly uncovered records reveal.Moses J. Robinette, Biden's relative on his father's side, grew up in western and got hired by the Army as a veterinary surgeon in 1862 or 1863, despite lacking specific schooling in the trade, according to newly unearthed records from the National Archives, scholar David Gerleman wrote in the . His qualifications for the role were 'unstated,' Gerleman wrote, but that was unexceptional during a time when the U.S. lacked many veterinary schools.
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