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AJHSET_170601_05.JPG: "I Have Wrestled With Poverty"
Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 to poor, uneducated parents in a small building that served as a kitchen to Casso's Inn in Raleigh, North Carolina. When Andrew was three, his father died after saving two of his wealthy employers from drowning in an icy pond. A few years later, Johnson's destitute mother apprenticed Andrew and his brother to a local tailor.
At age 15, Johnson and his brother got into a legal dispute with the tailor and ran away. Two years later, Johnson returned to Raleigh to try to settle the dispute. Then he led his mother and stepfather over the Appalachians here to Greeneville. From his humble beginnings, Johnson started on the road to independence and, eventually, the presidency of the United States.
"Yes I have wrestled with poverty, the gaunt and haggard monster; I have met in the day and night; I have felt its withering approach and its blighting influence..."
-- Andrew Johnson 1862
AJHSET_170601_12.JPG: Andrew Johnson Birthplace Replica 1999
The traditional story of Andrew Johnson's birth is held firmly in place by the preservation of a small historic structure located in Mordicai Park in Raleigh, N.C. That small building, probably built in the late 1700's, was part of a complex of buildings known as Caso's Inn, a well known hotel of that period located in Raleigh.
This Inn was where Andrew Johnson's father worked as a stable keeper and his mother worked as a weaver.
According to tradition Andrew Johnson was born in the loft of the kitchen at the Inn. The story goes that on December 29, 1808 a wedding party was in progress at the tavern when the festivities were interrupted by news of the birth of a baby to the Johnsons.
According to the same tradition, the bride went to the cabin at the back of the Inn to visit with the baby and his mother.
The building you see here is a replica of that birthplace of Andrew Johnson. It represents an important part of the Andrew Johnson story and speaks of a man who began his life in very humble conditions and later became the seventeenth president of the United States of America.
AJHSET_170601_27.JPG: Margaret Johnson Patterson Bartlett:
Margaret Johnson Patterson Bartlett, great-granddaughter of Andrew Johnson, is the donor of this memorial and tribute to her illustrious ancestor. As heir to the Johnson estate following the death of her mother and father, Andrew Johnson Patterson, grandson of the president, Margaret carried the Johnson torch for the ensuing forty years, waging a constant crusade of dedication to the preservation and perpetuation of the name and political career of her great-grandfather. An oft-expressed wish, the crowning jewel in her final tribute was that this statue mark a daily visible memorial to Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, and so Margaret's legacy to Greenville and Greene County is this ageless image, an unsurpassed legend in American history, to all mankind for generations upon generations yet unborn.
Andrew Johnson:
Andrew Johnson - - born in poverty and obscurity in Raleigh, N. C., an apprentice tailor, established home and trade just across the street in 1826. He married Eliza McCardle in 1827 and from that union and inspiration began an unprecedented rise in American politics, leader and voice of the common man, defender of the constitution. The people's choice as alderman, then mayor of Greenville in 1834, climbing the ladder of recognition and acceptance in county state and nation, climaxing election to the office of Vice-President of the United States in 1864, and upon assassination of President Lincoln, ascending to the Presidency of the United States in 1865. He was re-elected to the U. S. Senate in 1875, long heralded by historians as the Preserver of the Union of the United States and Defender of the Constitution.
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2005_TN_JohnsonNHS_Etc: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Other (6 photos from 2005)
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2005_TN_JohnsonNHS_VC: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Visitor Center (7 photos from 2005)
2017_TN_JohnsonNHS_VC: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Visitor Center (145 photos from 2017)
2005_TN_JohnsonNHS_NC: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- National Cemetery (3 photos from 2005)
2017_TN_JohnsonNHS_NC: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- National Cemetery (30 photos from 2017)
1999_TN_JohnsonNHS_NC: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS (11 photos from 1999)
1999_TN_JohnsonNHS_Home: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Home (3 photos from 1999)
2005_TN_JohnsonNHS_Home: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Home (3 photos from 2005)
2017_TN_JohnsonNHS_Home: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Home (71 photos from 2017)
1999_TN_JohnsonNHS_Early: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Early Home (3 photos from 1999)
2005_TN_JohnsonNHS_Early: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Early Home (14 photos from 2005)
2017_TN_JohnsonNHS_Early: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Early Home (104 photos from 2017)
2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Overnight trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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