1867                 Documents in Year 1868                      1869


Document

Person

State

Photos
1810-1877

Peter Vardeman II

58 years old - Kentucky

Photos
1815-1879

Mary W. Scrogin Vardeman
(Wife of Peter Vardeman II)

53 years old - Kentucky

Photos
1832-1915

Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell
(Future Congressman)
Civil War Veteran - Confederate

36 years old - Texas

Photos
1834-1915

Francis Marion Cockrell
(Future Senator)
Civil War Veteran - Confederate

34 years old - Missouri

Photos
1838-1923

John Thomas Vardiman
(son of Peter Vardeman II)
Civil War Veteran - Union

30 years old - Kentucky

Photos
1846-1921

Cornelia F. Gaines Vardiman
(Wife of John Thomas)

22 years old - Kentucky

Photos
1861-1930

Major James Kimble Vardaman
(Future Spanish American War Veteran, Mississippi Senator & Great, Great Grandson of John II Vardeman "the pioneer")

7 years old

Photos
1867-1956

Ernest Johnson Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

1 year old - Kentucky

Links of Interest:

  • America's Founding Primary Source Documents:

  • 1868 - Amendment XIV in the Bill of Rights -  U.S. citizens rights to life, liberty or property and clarification on who can be in government positions such as Congress.

  • Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth U.S. President

  • (1865-1869)

  • Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

  • February 24-March 2, 1868 - Andrew Johnson was impeached by House of Representatives. March 5-May 16, 1868 - impeachment trial in the Senate.
    Trial concluded with one vote shy of impeachment, therefore Johnson remained as President.


  • Education:

  • Morrill Act established Land-grant Industrial colleges to meet the needs of farmers and laborers to improve their social and economic status. 65 new land-grant colleges were established including:
    University of Maine (1865)
    University of Illinois (1867)
    University of West Virginia (1867)

    University of California (1868)

    Purdue University (1869)
    University of Nebraska (1869)
    Ohio University (1870)
    University of Arkansas (1871)
    Texas A&M University (1871)

    Source: Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 140-141 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010 see 1869 for next event...

  • Literature: Louisa May Alcott publishes Little Women in 1868.

  • Native Americans 1866-68:

  • Bozeman Trail war between U.S. and Plains Indians (Great Plains)
    Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996

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