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Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Johnson Cartes de Visite

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3849
Abstract

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

Dates: circa 1865

Andrew Johnson Coat Button

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1550
Abstract

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.

Dates: undated

Andrew Johnson Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3798
Abstract

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

Dates: 1859 February 7

Andrew Johnson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0763
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1863 March 3, 1865 February 4

Colonel Fay Warrington Brabson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0829
Abstract

Research material relating to Fay Warrington Brabson's biography of Andrew Jackson published in 1972. Includes a manuscript version of the book, Andrew Johnson, A Life in Pursuit of the Right Course, 1808-1875; correspondence, photographs, research notes, and clippings about Johnson, the Civil War, Greeneville, Tenn., and related subjects; and original letters to and from Johnson, W. G. Brownlow, Thaddeus Stevens, members of the Johnson family and others.

Dates: 1836-1969

Ephemera and Prints Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ephemera
Abstract

Artificial collection of printed material and ephemera items related to the history of Knoxville, Tennessee, the Great Smoky Mountains, and more.

Dates: 1800-2018

Francis A. Walker Colonel Commission

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0958
Abstract

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

Dates: 1865 April 20

John Bell Brownlow Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1915
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...
Dates: 1915 May 12

Satirical Pamphlet of Andrew Johnson

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1718
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1866

Screenplay for Tennessee Johnson

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3833
Abstract

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

Dates: 1942 May 2-June 28

The Disfranchisement of Tennessee

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3852
Abstract

This collection features The Disfranchisement of Tennessee, a pamphlet written in 1864 by an anonymous author that protests Andrew Johnson's new electoral processes.

Dates: 1864

"The Last Interview with Ex-President Johnson"

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1088
Abstract

This collection is a four page typescript with handwritten edits from Andrew J. Kellar recounting his last interview with President Andrew Johnson in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dates: 1896 June

"The Last Political Conversation of Andrew Johnson"

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1102
Abstract

Papers relating to "The Last Political Conversation of Andrew Johnson," a document typed most likely in the 1920s by Captain McElwee, who either typed it himself or dictated it. The document, rediscovered in 1977, describes an 1875 conversation with Andrew Johnson on a train out of Knoxville, Tennessee, shortly before Johnson's death. The discussion that took place was significant in detailing parts of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln ten years earlier.

Dates: 1923

"The President at Home"

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0990
Abstract

This collection includes a three-page handwritten editorial essay titled "The President at Home."

Dates: circa 1865