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This collection contains 10 cartes de visite featuring different portraits of Andrew Johnson.

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This button was originally a part of a coat that Andrew Johnson made for Joseph M. Galbraith while working as a tailor in Greeneville, Tennessee.

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These two invitations, from the Family of the Deceased, are for the unveiling of a monument to Andrew Johnson in Greeneville, Tennessee.

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This lithograph records the senate's vote for impeachment, held on May 16 and May 26, 1868. It is signed by Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice, and John W. Forney, Secretary. Below their names are listed 35 signatures of those voting guilty and 19 signatures of those voting not guilty.

Abstract These two tickets would have admitted the bearer to the gallery of the US Senate in order to watch the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. The ticket for March 24 is bright yellow pasteboard and has No. 921 on its stub. The ticket for April 27 is bright green pasteboard and has No. 283 on its stub. Included in this collection is the envelope they arrived in. It is addressed to Hon. Andrew Johnson, United States Senator, Greeneville, Tennessee, and is postmarked Dec 16 from...

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Four page personal correspondence between Andrew Johnson and his son, Robert Johnson, dated February 7, 1859 from Washington City.

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In a July 10, 1845, letter to his son-in-law David T. Patterson, Andrew Johnson, then serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, describes the political scene in East Tennessee at the time. He details stump speeches of Aaron Venable Brown and Ephraim Foster, candidates for governor who were appearing in a joint canvass. Additionally, Johnson speaks of William B. Carter, a Whig congressman, and Robert W. Powell, the incumbent Democratic senator.

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Andrew Johnson wrote this letter to E. M. Stanton while the latter was serving as Secretary of War in order to commend his friend Edward Hazzard East to him.

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This collection includes two letters written by Andrew Johnson. The letters are dated March 3, 1863 and February 4, 1865 and are written from Nashville, Tennessee.

Abstract The first document in this collection is a reproduction of an 1835 contract of indentured servitude establishing that Alexander Morehead will work in Johnson's Greeneville, Tennessee tailor shop while Johnson is in Nashville. The second document is an 1866 letter from the Secretary of the Navy requesting money to defray travel expenses that Johnson has incurred. The final document is an 1867 letter from Johnson's office to the Secretary of State transmitting a proposed itinerary for the...

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The document is a promissory note from John Willhoit to Andrew Johnson for $5.00 and received by Johnson on January 6, 1841.

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This collection consists of handwritten research notes and a piece by Basil Dukes entitled "Where Andrew Johnson's Mother was Buried." The author recollects the story told to him by a close friend of Andrew Johnson's, describing the cemetery plots belonging to the Johnson family.

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This collection contains a colonel commission for Francis A. Walker in 1865, signed by President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton.

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Henry Flanders wrote this letter to President Andrew Johnson on March 4, 1867, shortly after he returned from a visit to London. He enclosed several pamphlets (not included), which express foreign opinion of the consistent and courageous administration of the duties of your high office. Flanders also offers his opinion as to the identity of the pamphlets' author.

Abstract Collection consists of a single typed letter written by John B. Brownlow in 1915 addressed to a grandchild of President Andrew Johnson. The letter recounts an event in Knoxville in June 1861 in which a young Brownlow was told by his father, William Gannaway Brownlow, to see Senator Andrew Johnson to safety after learning that the train Johnson was to travel on from Kingston to Knoxville was full of Confederate troops. Brownlow convinced Johnson to travel with him and Johnson made it out of...

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In a June 7, 1878 letter to Governeur J. Tompkins of Duchess County, N.Y., Minnie Ramsay provides a first-hand account of the unveiling of the Andrew Johnson Monument in Greeneville.

Abstract This collection houses photocopied handwritten documents, microfilm, handwritten and typed notes, correspondence, congressional records, bills, pension records, military service records, diaries, journal articles, newspapers, and transcripts used to write The Papers of Andrew Johnson, a sixteen-volume set covering the years 1858 to 1875. Some material that was not published in the final set is included here. Additionally, the collection houses information about the Project itself, including...

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This collection consists of a handwritten, satirical pamphlet dated 1866 entitled "'My Policy' or The New Gospel of Peace According to St. Andy the Apostate." The document criticizes Andrew Johnson's vetoes of the Freedmen's Bureau Act and Civil Rights Act of 1866.

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A screenplay of Andrew Johnson: The Man on America’s Conscience, later Tennessee Johnson from 1942.

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This collection contains copies of notes, correspondence, records, bibliography and other research papers collected by historian St. George Leakin Sioussat largely in preparation of a biography of Andrew Johnson and other prominent Tennesseans.