It Happened on Christmas Day

Members of the Union Army's 96th Pennsylvanian Regiment carrying out a drill at Camp Northumberland outside of Washington D.C.
Library of Congress / Getty

Presidential Pardon
In 1868, President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional amnesty to all those who fought on the side of the south, like these Confederate soldiers, in the US Civil War.

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