A biography discussing the personal life, education, and political career of the seventeenth President of the United States, Andrew Johnson.
Johnson to William Lowry , February 13 , 1870 , R. S. Saunders to Johnson , December 13 , 19 , 1869 , J. C. Burch to Johnson ... 2ff . , 10–12 ; A. S. Colyar to Johnson , May 19 , August 30 , October 5 , 1870 , John McGaugey et al . to ...
Describes America at the start of Reconstruction and identifies President Andrew Johnson as one of the reasons it proceeded with such difficulty.
Bowling Green physician , currently Internal Revenue collector for the 2nd district , protests the appointment of Robert M. Hathaway , a non - administration man , as Ist district collector , and recommends the selection of Nimrod B.
Historian Hans L. Trefousse gives us "a brilliant, compassionate portrait of a dynamic era of social change and national healing, and of the tragic failure of an American leader" (LIBRARY JOURNAL). Photos.
Later in the day Booth wrote a letter to Coyle and gave it to the actor John Matthews, a friend of Coyle's, to be delivered the following day for publication in the Intelligencer. After he heard about the assassination, Matthews read ...
While it is commonly known that Andrew Johnson was the first president to be impeached, less well known are the circumstances that led to the unsuccessful campaign to remove him from office.
John W. Price to Johnson, october 7, 1866, PAJ 11: 319–20; edwin C. Wilson to Johnson, october 11, 1866, ... Richard H. Jackson to Johnson, november 1, 1866, PAJ 11: 413; Browning Diary 2: 109–10; Welles Diary 2: 626–27; ...
Andrew Johnson, who became president after the assassination of Lincoln, oversaw the most crucial and dramatic phase of Reconstruction. Historians have therefore tended to concentrate, to the exclusion of practically...
Thomas Schoonover, Civil War History. June 1973:149-61. Ruchames, Louis. “Charles Sumner and American Historiography." The Journal of Negro History. April 1953: 139–60. Ruddy, Richard A. Edmund G. Ross: Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist.
From Percy S. Sinclair December 20 , 1864 , near Savannah , Ga .; ALS , DLC - JP . Captain and provost marshal of 60th N.Y. Volunteers , his health “ greatly impaired ” after two and one - half years of “ tough & hardy ” service , seeks ...