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CIVIL WAR FILE CARDS FOR THE LETTER D FULL
The Index to the Andrew Johnson Papers, created by the Manuscript Division in 1963 after the bulk of the collection was microfilmed, provides a full list of the correspondents and notes the series number and dates of the items indexed. Sherman, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, George H. Rosecrans, John McAllister Schofield, Carl Schurz, William Henry Seward, Philip Henry Sheridan, William T. McClernand, Hugh McCulloch, George Gordon Meade, Montgomery C. Black, Francis Preston Blair, Montgomery Blair, Simon Cameron, Lewis D. Notable correspondents include George Bancroft, Edward Bates, Henry Ward Beecher, James B. Moore, are included in the collection and accompanied by typed transcriptions. Shorthand diaries kept by Johnson’s secretary, William G. The collection also documents Johnson’s service as military governor of Tennessee (1862-1865) and his business affairs, including his tailor shop in Greeneville, Tennessee. Subjects include the Civil War, National Union Party, Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and assassination, Reconstruction, and Johnson’s presidential administration and impeachment. Spanning the years 1783-1947, with the bulk dating 1865-1869, the collection contains correspondence, memoranda, diaries, messages and speeches, courts-martial and amnesty records, financial records, lists, newspaper clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Johnson’s presidency. The papers of vice president, senator, and representative Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), who became the seventeenth president of the Unites States in 1865 after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, consist of 40,000 items (63,710 images), most of which were digitized from 55 reels of previously produced microfilm.
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