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Treason Must Be Made Odious
"Treason must be made odious" was the most common shorthand rendering of a stump speech (a standardized campaign speech repeatedly made by a politician at a series of locations and times) made by Tennessean Andrew Johnson when he was military governor and a 1864 United States presidential election, U.S. vice-presidential candidate in 1864. The phrase became relevant to the post-American Civil War legal issues surrounding the potential prosecution of former Confederate States of America, Confederate politicians and officers, as well as questions of enfranchisement of freedmen versus the re-enfranchisement of ex-Confederates. It has been described as "one of the best-remembered sayings of one of the least-remembered of our Presidents." History Andrew Johnson, a slave-owning Southern Unionist, was the only member of the U.S. Senate from a secessionist state who stayed loyal at the outbreak of the American Civil War. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Tennessee in the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andersonville Cartoon Davis
Andersonville may refer to: Places United States * Andersonville, Georgia, site of an American Civil War prisoner of war camp ** Andersonville National Historic Site, Confederate prisoner of war camp in Georgia holding Union soldiers *Andersonville, Chicago, a neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois **Andersonville Commercial Historic District, an historic district in Chicago *Andersonville, Indiana *Andersonville, Michigan *Andersonville, Ohio, an unincorporated community *Andersonville, South Carolina *Andersonville, Tennessee *Andersonville, Virginia *Andersonville, West Virginia Elsewhere *Andersonville, New Brunswick, Canada Other uses *Andersonville (novel), ''Andersonville'' (novel), Pulitzer Prize–winning 1956 novel by MacKinlay Kantor *Andersonville (film), ''Andersonville'' (film), 1996 film based on a POW camp prisoner's diary *"Andersonville", a song by Dave Alvin from his 1991 album ''Blue Blvd'' See also *''The Andersonville Trial'' {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
