Episodes Around: 18660119

  1. Andrew Johnson Provokes the Radical Republicans
    date 1865 to 1867map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Government, Politics, Race Relations, Constitution

    Johnson was impeached for violating a number of laws, but was acquitted. He attempted to accomplish a number of things while trying to get former Confederate states back into the Union, but he did so in an improper manner. In 1868 the House of Representatives brought Andrew Johnson on trial for violating the Tenure of Office Act. According to The New York Times article, "The President's...

  2. Jefferson Davis Finds a Friend in Prison
    date May, 1865 to December, 1866map MONROE, Virginiatags Civil War, prison, Reconstruction

    Around May 10 1865, federal troops captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis fleeing in Georgia and sent him to be confined in Fortress Monroe, Virginia. Davis was held prisoner for two years from May 1865 to May 1867, six months of the time confined in a casemate under heavy guard. According to a war memo excerpted in a New York Times article, he was not arraigned upon any indictment or formal...

  3. The Arrest of Senator Clay in the Assasination of Lincoln
    date May 22, 1865 to April 17, 1866map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Crime/Violence, Politics, War, Women

    When Mrs. Virginia Clay, the wife of Senator Clay of Alabama, received news of her husband's arrest, she was immediately enraged. Up to this point in 1865, she had been enjoying the life of a socialite in Washington, DC, while Mr. Clay had taken on the role of Senator for the Confederacy. President Johnson had Clay arrested, alongside Jefferson Davis for allegedly conspiring in the assassination...

  4. The Ever-Present Threat of Cholera
    date January 1, 1866 to June 30, 1866map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Health/Death

    The nineteenth century was an era in which people constantly feared the outbreak of epidemic diseases, especially cholera. An epidemic of cholera was already raging in Europe in the fall of 1865, and as had occurred in 1832 and 1849, it seemed inevitable that the disease would cross the Atlantic and ravage the United States. New York saw the arrival of the cholera on April 18th, 1866 on the steamship...

  5. Ex-Confederates Move Way Down South
    date 1866map YOUNG TERRITORY, Texastags Civil War, The Confederate States of America, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    For some Confederates at the end of the war, defeat was too much to bear. By the 1870, the Census Bureau estimated that there was a net loss of more than 300,000 migrants in nine former Confederate states. The ones that left the United States altogether and went by way of Brazil and Mexico were known as "confederados" and built their homes in Santarem in the Amazon basin and Santa Barbara D'Oeste...

  6. Trial Finds a White Man Innocent of Shooting a Black Man
    date January 19, 1866map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Law, Race-Relations, Slavery

    After the death of John Anderson, a black man who had been shot by an unknown white man, a trial was being held with eye-witnesses. Of the three witnesses who testified, two of them were black and one of them was white. The first black witness, known as Henry Barret, testified that the assailant had been a white man who he believed may have been dressed in grey and wearing a hat. The following white...