The Act of June 6, 1898, ch. 389, 30 Stat. 432, 55th Congress removed the parts of the 14th Amendment that kept ex-Confederates as non-citizens and gave them complete amnesty. It states..."that the disability imposed by Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution heretofore incurred is hereby removed." Robert E. Lee regained his full citizenship on this date...not in 1975.

I didn't want this little fact forgot.

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David Upton