Andrew Johnson #7: Battles over Reconstruction (1865-1866); Topics covered include: President of the United States, Presidential Reconstruction, conflicts with Congress, representatives from seceded states not seated in Congress, Freedman's Bureau, speech on Washington's birthday, vetoes and overrides, and perspective on Johnson's actions in light of stated plans of Abraham Lincoln

Key people: Benjamin Wade, Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, George Washington, Lyman Trumbull, John Stockton, Ward Lamon, and Abraham Lincoln

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Andrew Johnson #6: Filling Lincoln's Shoes (1865); Topics covered include: President of the United States, Civil War ends, investigation of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, victory celebration in Washington DC, meetings with Congressmen regarding Reconstruction, Presidential Reconstruction, conflict with Radical Republicans in Congress, Black Codes, family in the White House, and the convictions and hangings of (4) Lincoln conspirators

Key people: Mary Lincoln, George Azterodt, William Seward, Joseph Holt, Joseph Johnston, William Sherman, Ulysses Grant, George Meade, Eliza Johnson, Martha Johnson, and Mary Surratt

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Andrew Johnson #5: Lincoln's Second VP (1864-1865); Topics covered include: Military Governor of Tennessee, son Charles Johnson is killed, election of 1860, nominated for Vice President on the National Union ticket, Abraham Lincoln and Johnson win the election, completes revision to the Tennessee Constitution, humiliation at inauguration, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his army, Lincoln is assassinated, Johnson is sworn is as the 17th President of the United States

Key people: Charles Johnson, George McClellan, John Fremont, Hannibal Hamlin, Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, William Sherman, George Thomas, Edwin Stanton, Gideon Welles, Zachariah Chandler, Leonard Farwell, James O'Beirne, William Seward, William Petersen, and Salmon Chase

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Andrew Johnson #4: Wartime Governor (1862-1865); Topics covered include: Civil War, remains loyal to the Union and President Abraham Lincoln, Tennessee secedes, military battles in Tennessee, Military Governor of Tennessee, battles around Nashville, and the Emancipation Proclamation

Key people: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Don Buell, Nathan Forrest, and William Rosecrans

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Andrew Johnson #3: A Southerner Takes a Stand (1853-1862); Topics covered include: Governor of Tennessee (two terms), Eliza Johnson contracts tuberculosis, marriage of daughter Martha Johnson to David Patterson, U.S. Senator, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Homestead Act, election of 1860, Southern secession, only Senator from a seceded state to remain loyal to the Union, firing on Fort Sumter, and the start of the Civil War

Key people: Gustavus Henry, Eliza Johnson, Charles Johnson, Robert Johnson, Martha Johnson, David Patterson, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln

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Andrew Johnson #2: Off to Congress (1843-1853); Topics covered include: Congressman, loyal Democrat, Homestead Act, relationship with President James Polk, Mexican War, Compromise of 1850, and end in Congress after five terms

Key people: Parson Brownlow, James Polk, Sarah Polk, and Martha Johnson

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Andrew Johnson #1: A Mudsill (1808-1843); Topics covered include: Parents, poverty throughout youth, father dies, apprenticed as a tailor, abandoned apprenticeship, leaves for Tennessee, settles in Greenville, sets up tailor shop, self-educates, marries Eliza McArdle, birth of first two children, elected to the town council, becomes mayor, elected to the state legislature, tailor shop thrived, joins the Democratic Party, and procures his first two slaves

Key people: Jacob Johnson, Mary Johnson, Turner Daughtry, James Selby, William Johnson, Sarah Work, Eliza (McArdle) Johnson, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren

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Abraham Lincoln #15: Reconstruction and Assassination (1865); Topics covered include: 10% Plan, discussion regarding plans for Reconstruction, final offensive of the war, Richmond falls, Lincoln visits Richmond, Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox Court House, death toll of Civil War, attends play at Ford's Theater, shot by John Wilkes Booth, dies next morning, funeral services, capture and sentences for conspirators, and reflection

Key people: Ulysses Grant, Alexander Stephens, William Sherman, David Porter, Jefferson Davis, Wilmer McLean, Robert E. Lee, Robert Lincoln, Mary Lincoln, Ward Lamon, John Parker, Henry Rathbone, Clara Harris, William Seward, John Wilkes Booth, and Edwin Stanton

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Abraham Lincoln #14: Wartime Election (1864-1865); Topics covered include: Ulysses Grant named commanding general of the Union Army, 10% Plan, Election of 1864, forms the National Union Party, Overland Campaign, defense of Washington, DC at Fort Stevens, capture Atlanta, electoral victory for Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, and passage of the 13th Amendment

Key people: Ulysses Grant, John Fremont, George McClellan, Andrew Johnson, Jubal Early, Horatio Wright, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Sherman, and Mary Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln #13: Tide Turns (1863); Topics covered include: Change in commanders, Battle of Chancellorsville, arrest of Clement Vallandigham, justification for use of executive power, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Vicksburg, Gettysburg Address, and the Battle of Chattanooga

Key people: George McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Joe Hooker, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Clement Vallandigham, Erastus Corning, George Meade, Ulysses Grant, Joshua Chamberlain, Robert E. Lee, George Pickett, and Edward Everett

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