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21 hours ago · Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was an American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time. Johnson was a Democrat who ran with Abraham Lincoln on the National Union Party ...
21 hours ago · Five days after Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers to defend the national capital, on April 20, Robert E. Lee, embracing the cause of Virginia's separation from the Union, resigned his U.S. Army commission to lead Virginia's separatist armed forces; the following year, on June 1, 1862, Lee was appointed commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederate Army's primary military force.
