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1. AJHSVC_170601_001.JPG: Andrew Johnson National Historic Site Welcome to the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site. This site commemorates the life and work of the seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson. Born in poverty, Johnson rose from Greeneville tailor to the nation's highest office. His political philosophy was based upon a strict interpretation of the Constitution, a belief in states' rights, and unshakable commitment to serve the workingman, and a conservative attitude toward government spending. Johnson's presidency, including the impeachment and acquittal, occurred during the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Four separate locations make up the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site. These include an Early Home, the Visitor Center, the Andrew Johnson Homestead, and the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery. Map locations: 1 Early Home: We recommend that you begin your tour at the Early Home where exhibits describe Johnson's early years and the road to his presidency. 2 Visitor Center: The Visitor Center's exhibits review Johnson's presidency and final years. Its Memorial Building encloses a museum and Johnson's Tailor Shop. 3 Andrew Johnson Homestead: The Homestead is furnished with family furniture and memorabilia. Tickets for guided tours of the Homestead are available at the Visitor Center. 4 Andrew Johnson National Cemetery: Johnson's burial site atop Monument Hill overlooking Greeneville provides a fitting close to your visit.
2. AJHSVC_170601_005.JPG: 1 Early Home: We recommend that you begin your tour at the Early Home where exhibits describe Johnson's early years and the road to his presidency. 2 Visitor Center: The Visitor Center's exhibits review Johnson's presidency and final years. Its Memorial Building encloses a museum and Johnson's Tailor Shop.
3. AJHSVC_170601_009.JPG: 3 Andrew Johnson Homestead: The Homestead is furnished with family furniture and memorabilia. Tickets for guided tours of the Homestead are available at the Visitor Center.
4. AJHSVC_170601_012.JPG: 4 Andrew Johnson National Cemetery: Johnson's burial site atop Monument Hill overlooking Greeneville provides a fitting close to your visit.
5. AJHSVC_170601_016.JPG: From Tailor to President
6. AJHSVC_170601_026.JPG: Ribbon worn by Andrew Johnson to mourn the death of President Lincoln. There is a picture of Abraham Lincoln in the center of the ribbon.
7. AJHSVC_170601_029.JPG: Andrew Johnson placed his hand on this Bible and took the oath of office
8. AJHSVC_170601_035.JPG: Lincoln-Johnson
9. AJHSVC_170601_040.JPG: Death of Abraham Lincoln
10. AJHSVC_170601_049.JPG: Political Fabric
11. AJHSVC_170601_058.JPG: 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of the Alaskan Purchase from Russia. The purchase was a highlight of Andrew Johnson's administration.
12. AJHSVC_170601_061.JPG: Why did Russia sell Alaska?
13. AJHSVC_170601_064.JPG: Negotiations
14. AJHSVC_170601_067.JPG: Outcome
15. AJHSVC_170601_070.JPG: Two cents per acre was how much the US paid Russia for Alaska
16. AJHSVC_170601_072.JPG: Photo of the payment for the purchase of Alaska
17. AJHSVC_170601_075.JPG: What's in a name?
18. AJHSVC_170601_080.JPG: The Tailor Shop: It was in this tailor shop that Andrew Johnson began a political career that would lead him to the White House. When Johnson purchased the shop, it was located on or near Main Street and he then moved it to its present location. Its frame structure is covered in yellow poplar weatherboarding and its interior walls are covered with wide pine boards.
19. AJHSVC_170601_084.JPG: Andrew Johnson in Greeneville
20. AJHSVC_170601_087.JPG: Andrew Johnson in Greeneville
21. AJHSVC_170601_096.JPG: Field Desk: As Military Governor of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson occasionally visited the field. This well-worn campaign desk accompanied him on these danger-filled excursions.
22. AJHSVC_170601_102.JPG: Military Governor Andrew Johnson
23. AJHSVC_170601_108.JPG: Preserving the Tailor Shop
24. AJHSVC_170601_111.JPG: Inside the Tailor Shop
25. AJHSVC_170601_124.JPG: A Profile in Courage
26. AJHSVC_170601_131.JPG: A Tailor's Trade
27. AJHSVC_170601_136.JPG: Renting Out the Tailor Shop
28. AJHSVC_170601_141.JPG: Tennessee Agriculture Hall of Fame
29. AJHSVC_170601_158.JPG: A Family's Vision
30. AJHSVC_170601_181.JPG: The original plan was to have eight enlisted sections, five as white sections and three as "colored sections." The sections were marked by concrete cylinders placed in the ground.
31. AJHSVC_170601_183.JPG: The National Cemetery
32. AJHSVC_170601_189.JPG: Old View of Cemetery
33. AJHSVC_170601_191.JPG: Lucretia and Josiah Bewley standing by Cemetery water pump
34. AJHSVC_170601_193.JPG: Josiah Bewley raising flag at National Cemetery
35. AJHSVC_170601_201.JPG: Wedding coat made by Andrew Johnson
36. AJHSVC_170601_211.JPG: Early Months of the Presidency
37. AJHSVC_170601_219.JPG: Andrew Johnson pardons rebels at the White House in 1865
38. AJHSVC_170601_225.JPG: Life at the White House
39. AJHSVC_170601_233.JPG: Easter Egg Roll
40. AJHSVC_170601_235.JPG: Martha Johnson Patterson is wearing the earrings and a necklace she received as a gift from Mrs. James K. Polk. While a student in the Georgetown area, Martha often visited Mrs. Polk at the White House.
41. AJHSVC_170601_240.JPG: Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn
42. AJHSVC_170601_246.JPG: The Presidency
43. AJHSVC_170601_249.JPG: Lady Liberty pardoning the rebels
44. AJHSVC_170601_256.JPG: Johnson's Break with Congress
45. AJHSVC_170601_258.JPG: Early Supporters Early Opponents
46. AJHSVC_170601_264.JPG: Senator James Dixon of Connecticut
47. AJHSVC_170601_266.JPG: Early Opponents
48. AJHSVC_170601_273.JPG: Irreconcilable Differences
49. AJHSVC_170601_280.JPG: The Freedmen's Bureau, which provided aid to both blacks and whites in the South following the Civil War, helped educate nearly 250,000 children.
50. AJHSVC_170601_288.JPG: Post-War South
51. AJHSVC_170601_294.JPG: Twenty-nine of the fifty black delegates who helped rewrite the Louisiana state constitution in 1868.
52. AJHSVC_170601_299.JPG: Mourning women at Richmond ruins
53. AJHSVC_170601_302.JPG: Thomas Nast cartoon depicting post-war racial tensions
54. AJHSVC_170601_310.JPG: Foreign Affairs
55. AJHSVC_170601_320.JPG: Telegram from the Queen of England congratulating President Johnson no the successful completion of the transatlantic cable.
56. AJHSVC_170601_323.JPG: This check authorized the payment of $7.2 million for the purchase of Alaska from Russia.
57. AJHSVC_170601_326.JPG: Alaska Purchase
58. AJHSVC_170601_329.JPG: Transatlantic Cable
59. AJHSVC_170601_338.JPG: The Veto President
60. AJHSVC_170601_347.JPG: Clearing up a Common Misconception Impeachment
61. AJHSVC_170601_350.JPG: Why Was Johnson Impeached? Guilty or Not?
62. AJHSVC_170601_354.JPG: Guilty or Not?
63. AJHSVC_170601_359.JPG: Andrew Johnson with his counsel at the White House to prepare for the impeachment trial.
64. AJHSVC_170601_364.JPG: Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
65. AJHSVC_170601_367.JPG: The Senate Trial
66. AJHSVC_170601_373.JPG: The Senate trial of Andrew Johnson
67. AJHSVC_170601_382.JPG: Ticket for admission to the Senate Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson
68. AJHSVC_170601_385.JPG: The Verdict
69. AJHSVC_170601_393.JPG: One Vote Counts
70. AJHSVC_170601_398.JPG: Johnson as he appeared in 1868, after his ordeal in office
71. AJHSVC_170601_405.JPG: The Final Years: Johnson returned to Greeneville in 1869 after Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated. Determined to prove that his course as president was justified, Johnson campaigned -- however, unsuccessfully -- for the United States Senate in 1869 and the U.S. House of Representatives in 1872. Finally, in January 1875, he was chosen to represent Tennessee in the United States Senate. News of Johnson's victory attracted national attention because no ex-president had ever returned to serve in the Senate. During the special session of the Senate in March 1875, Johnson spoke out against the Reconstruction program and the political corruption of the Grant administration. A few months later while visiting his daughter, Mary Stover Brown, at her farm in Carter County, he suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed. Four days later, on July 31, 1875, Andrew Johnson suffered a second stroke and died. He was sixty-six years old. Friends and relatives brought his body back to Greeneville to be buried atop Signal Hill, now known as Monument Hill. Vindicated at Last: When Johnson removed Stanton in defiance of the Tenure of Office Act, he believed the act unconstitutional. This view was vindicated in 1926 when the Supreme Court ruled it so.
72. AJHSVC_170601_410.JPG: Johnson returned to Greeneville in 1869 after Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated. Determined to prove that his course as president was justified, Johnson campaigned -- however, unsuccessfully -- for the United States Senate in 1869 and the U.S. House of Representatives in 1872. Finally, in January 1875, he was chosen to represent Tennessee in the United States Senate. News of Johnson's victory attracted national attention because no ex-president had ever returned to serve in the Senate. During the special session of the Senate in March 1875, Johnson spoke out against the Reconstruction program and the political corruption of the Grant administration.
73. AJHSVC_170601_413.JPG: A few months later while visiting his daughter, Mary Stover Brown, at her farm in Carter County, he suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed. Four days later, on July 31, 1875, Andrew Johnson suffered a second stroke and died. He was sixty-six years old. Friends and relatives brought his body back to Greeneville to be buried atop Signal Hill, now known as Monument Hill.
74. AJHSVC_170601_415.JPG: This letter, written by Johnson while she was sick with cholera in 1873, reveals his belief in God and his feelings about death.
75. AJHSVC_170601_430.JPG: Andrew Johnson's funeral bier
76. AJHSVC_170601_434.JPG: Vindicated at Last: When Johnson removed Stanton in defiance of the Tenure of Office Act, he believed the act unconstitutional. This view was vindicated in 1926 when the Supreme Court ruled it so.
77. AJHSVC_170601_436.JPG: Cane presented to Andrew Johnson by a German immigrant in 1865
78. AJHSVC_170601_446.JPG: Impeachment Tickets: Tickets to Andrew Johnson's Impeachment Trial were printed in different colors for different dates. The public packed the galleries to watch.
79. AJHSVC_170601_450.JPG: Impeachment: Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives on February 24, 1868. Congress accused him of violating the Tenure of Office Act by firing his Secretary of War without their approval. The Senate Trial lasted from March-May 1868.
80. AJHSVC_170601_455.JPG: Silver Peace Medal: Given to Native Americans by government representatives as a gesture of peace & goodwill, these medals bore Andrew Johnson's likeness. Large numbers of settlers moved West under the Homestead Act during Johnson's administration.
81. AJHSVC_170601_464.JPG: Olive Wood Cask: This barrel-shaped cask held needles and thimbles -- an appropriate belonging for a former tailor! The Hebrew inscription on the cask reads "Jerusalem" The Ottoman Empire supported the Union during the Civil War because of trade agreements.
82. AJHSVC_170601_467.JPG: Andrew Johnson's administration was also active with foreign affairs. Some elements of gifts/foreign diplomacy are displayed here.
83. AJHSVC_170601_470.JPG: Sword Adornment: This small gold ornament was likely decoration for a Japanese sword scabbard. Family tradition states that it was presented to Commodore Perry during his 1850s expedition to Japan, and that it had once belonged to the Mikado of Japan. The Consulate at Kanagawa, Japan, burned during Johnson's presidency, on November 26, 1866. In Johnson's 1868 address to Congress, he affirmed that the US had maintained neutrality in the face of Japan's "theater of Civil War."
84. AJHSVC_170601_475.JPG: Ivory Basket Given to Mrs. Johnson in 1868 by Queen Emma of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii)
85. AJHSVC_170601_481.JPG: Mementoes of Lincoln's life & death, such as this book and medal, were everywhere -- these two items belonged to Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's Vice-President.
86. AJHSVC_170601_486.JPG: Reconstruction: Based on Andrew Johnson's plan of "restoration" for the Southern states, certain former Confederate soldiers had to apply directly to the President for pardon. Although the seal is gone, President Johnson used this stamping board to affix the presidential seal to legal documents. Johnson issues approximately 13,500 pardons -- more than any other President before or since.
87. AJHSVC_170601_496.JPG: "I am for an aristocracy of labor, of intelligent, stimulating, virtuous labor; of talent, of intellect, of merit; for the elevation of each and every man, white and black, according to his talent and industry." -- Andrew Johnson Despite conflicts with Congress over legislation dealing with the freedmen, Johnson made several personal stances to help improve the education of former slaves. He gave $1000.00 to a freedmen's school in Charleston, SC and signed the charter for Howard University. When Johnson's former slave, Sam, asked to purchase land for a schoolhouse, Johnson responded to a representative: "... select the lot wanted, have it surveyed, plat made, and a deed drawn up... and send the instrument to me. I will convey the land to them without charge..."
88. AJHSVC_170601_498.JPG: Sam Johnson
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- 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)
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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. 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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