This East Tennessee Tailor would become the 17th President of the United States.

Guests discuss Andrew and Eliza Johnson’s experiences during the Civil War, and present a tour of the Johnson's home in Greeneville, TN 4 minutes Bell Ringer Assignment ...

Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved ...

President Andrew Johnson, formerly Vice President to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, officially declared the end of the war on Aug. 20, 1866, as documented by the University of ...

Andrew Johnson faced overwhelming opposition in the House and the Senate, ... This story has been updated to reflect that Civil War was not yet over when Lincoln was re-elected. Ad Feedback. Ad ...

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The Civil War officially ended on Aug. 20, 1866, but Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army 16 months earlier on April ... The official end came when President Andrew Johnson, ...

Bruce Burton notes that “Andrew Johnson pardoned hundreds of Confederate soldiers . . . to heal the wounds of the Civil War” (Letters, Jan. 24). True, but President Johnson also stipulated ...

Andrew Johnson, the man who replaced Lincoln as president, quickly sided with the defeated Confederates in resisting civil rights laws; opposing passage of the 15th Amendment, which guaranteed ...