This collection includes one copy of the anonymously published The Disfranchisement of Tennessee, a protest against Military Governor Andrew Johnson's 1864 electoral process that established extra voting standards. Johnson’s September 30, 1864 Proclamation scheduled voting for the 1864 election and required each voter to be an “active friend of the Government of the United States, and the enemy of the so-called Confederate States.” Johnson’s Proclamation also allowed Union soldiers to vote in the field. The anonymous author claims that Johnson’s power to determine voting standards in such manners vests him with “plenary dictatorial power” and protests this electoral process within the state of Tennessee.