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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Pueblo County will be honoring a Civil War Veteran with his own special road naming ceremony. Warren C. Dockum received a Medal of Honor on May 10, 1865, from President Andrew Johnson.