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

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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.