# Talk:Benjamin Hardin Helm

There should be a reference to Mrs Helm. She must have been an active rebel, since she was pardoned by Lincoln (though I am not sure how she could be pardoned without being convicted in the first place).101.98.74.13 (talk) 06:51, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

It was an amnesty program, see The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction,  that covered persons who "directly or by implication, participated in the existing rebellion" and were not a member of several except classes such as U.S. military officers that resigned their commission and then fought for the Confederacy. Generic1139 (talk) 16:56, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

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