The Sleeping Sentinel is a 1914 American black-and-white silent film that depicted President Abraham Lincoln pardoning a military sentry who had been sentenced to die for sleeping while on duty.

The name of the film is taken from the Civil War poem "The Sleeping Sentinel" by Francis De Haas Janvier.

[1] In the actual incident during the American Civil War, William Scott, a private in the 3rd Vermont Infantry, fell asleep while on guard duty.

Lincoln heard about the case, pardoned Scott, and returned him to his unit.

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