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Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 Speech or article re: defending Andrew Johnson, discussing Reconstruction

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05608 Author/Creator: Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph manuscript Date: 1875 ca. Pagination: 5 p. : Height: 26.7 cm, Width: 20.7 cm Order a Copy

Also discusses Lincoln and the Radical Republicans. Reponds to an article in the "Courent" of the 14th which it quotes at length.

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Lincoln's Cabinet
Reconstruction
President
Politics
Republican Party
Reconstruction

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