The Sleeping Sentinel

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The Sleeping Sentinel is was a 1914 film that included US President Abraham Lincoln pardoning a sleeping sentry.

The Sleeping Sentinel was a poem that was written about the William Scott case, a private from the 3rd Vermont Regiment. Scott feel asleep while on guard duty and was arrested and court marshalled to be shot. Abraham Lincoln pardoned Scott and returned him to his unit where he would later die. The "Sleeping Sentinel" was a melodramtic poem written about this case but had William Scott standing before the firing squad and Lincoln comes riding in on a carriage and stops the squad before it fires upon William Scott.