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 ...

When his home state of Tennessee became the final one to secede from the Union in June of 1861 - Johnson stood with his country remaining loyal to the United States during the Civil War. In 1862 ...

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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 ...