History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States
by Edmund G. Ross
PREFACE.
Little is now known to the general public of the history of the attempt to remove President Andrew Johnson in 1868, on his impeachment by the House of Representatives and trial by the Senate for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors in office, or of the causes that led to it. Yet it was one of the most important and critical events, involving possibly the gravest consequence ...