[tanknetter]

Lee was paroled by Grant. But I don’t think he has ever been pardoned.

Reason is that in order to be pardoned CSA officers had to request it. Lee was reluctant, but eventually persuaded to. The request landed on the desk of Republican Secretary of State Seward. Who promptlt disappeared, er, lost it.

[Political Junkie Too]

I Googled it. Johnson pardoned the Confederate Soldiers, but not Lee. Lee requested it later, but his loyalty oath was "lost" for 100 years. His pardon was granted posthumously when his loyalty oath was found in the National Archives.

-PJ