Gen. Simon Bolivar Bucker surrendered his Army of the Trans-Mississippi — the last large Confederate army in the field. On May 29, President Andrew Johnson declared a general amnesty for most ...

Pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1869, Spangler moved to Maryland, where he remained until his death in 1875. Booth’s most valuable conspirator was a Confederate spy with a college education.

The ex-Confederate president was released 150 ... Serious people believed he had a chance of winning. President Andrew Johnson took no chances. On Christmas Day 1868, he pardoned former ...

While it's hard to imagine Front Street without the iconic Royal York Hotel, that plot of land was still home to Toronto's ...

July 31: President Andrew Johnson tells Ulysses S ... July 15: Georgia is the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union. May 1: Meeting of the Liberal Republican Convention ...

In my strolls around town with some of my friends I had some difficulty in finding the home pointed out by tradition as being the birthplace and home of the boyhood of President Andrew Johnson.

Legacy: Andrew Johnson’s racism and antipathy towards African-American civil rights were a harbinger for similar attitudes to come during Reconstruction. The first president to be impeached—but not ...

On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted along party lines, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Days later ...

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The film discusses the aftermath of the Civil War, focusing on the devastation in the South and the challenges faced by ...