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Re: Lincoln's Confederate Brother-in-law is honore

Lincoln called Benjamin Helms his favorite Brother-in Law and offered him a Colonel's commission in the US Army at the start of the War. Benjamin refused that commission and joined the Confederate cause.

Proud to call him a distant cousin of the Hardin family of North Carolina.

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