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Weekly 150: Andrew Johnson

The War is Virtually at an End

By Jason Martin
jmartin@mckenziebanner.com
Posted 5/9/23

With time ticking away and deadline quickly approaching, I struggled to find a muse for this week’s story. Thank goodness for Google as a search of "on this date in history” turned up a quote from Tennessee’s Andrew Johnson. On May 9, 1865, President Johnson declared the Civil War “may be regarded as virtually at an end.” This opened the rabbit hole and away I went.

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