Saturday, March 20, 2010

Gov. Andrew Johnson . . .

. . . continues to push forward the cause of the Union in Tennessee. He arrests the leading traitors, makes the suspicious ones take the oath of allegiance, and the result is that the people left to their own thoughts and consciences, return to their senses and their loyalty.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 28, 1862, p. 2

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