Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, detested the Confederate leadership and demanded: “Treason must be made odious.” Yet, Northern public opinion was far from unanimous. Prominent ...

A few months earlier, Congress had passed, over President Andrew Johnson ... After the Civil War, the federal response was generally lenient. Among the Confederacy’s top leaders, only Jefferson ...

The official end came when President Andrew Johnson ... rejected by Union leaders in Washington because they gave “generous political concessions to the South.” Confederate President ...

That the place where the Civil War reached its turning point had become ... having applied for a pardon from President Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln’s successor. This would enable him to ...

He was also a slave owner and spent a year in prison after the Civil War until granted a pardon by President Andrew Johnson. Stephen Mallory isn't exactly a household name in Key West, but his ...