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 ...

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 ...

In this episode, we explore a Civil War camp in Alabama that shows signs of use by Confederate, Union, and even Andrew Jackson's forces during the Creek Indian War of 1813. With friends visiting from ...

Fort Walker, named in 2023 after Civil War Union surgeon Mary Walker, will revert back to Fort A.P. Hill. For her family, the retraction feels familiar.

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 ...

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Andrew Johnson eventually moved west to Hempstead County, Arkansas. There, he had a son named Garner James Johnson. ... Mike Johnson didn’t lead a civil war, of course.

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