JOHNSON, Andrew (1808-1875). Letter signed (“Andrew Johnson”) as Military Governor of Tennessee, to Capt. O. d. Greene, Nashville, 17 April 1862.

JOHNSON, Andrew (1808-1875). Letter signed (“Andrew Johnson”) as Military Governor of Tennessee, to Capt. O. d. Greene, Nashville, 17 April 1862.

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Johnson appoints a new quartermaster for the Tennessee Volunteers. Only a month after Lincoln appointed Johnson to the post of military governor, Johnson works to build up Union forces in the state. Here, he informs Captain Greene, the Assistant Adjutant General for the Departments of the Ohio and the Cumberland, that he has “this day appointed Mr. Benjamin F. Mosley of Tenn: Quarter Master of 1st Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers now being formed in this State”.

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