Loyalty Under Fire
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By the middle stages of the Civil War, few members of Congress had become more forthright in the defense of the nation-state’s power, or more determined to fuse loyalty with citizenship, than Andrew Johnson. This chapter examines Johnson’s short-lived career at the helm of Reconstruction, focusing on the kind of loyalty Johnson imagined as the key to postwar citizenship and on the pleas of whites in Mississippi for pardon.
2020 ◽
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