Editing Andrew Johnson (section)

=== Death ===
[[File:Stover farm residence, Carter County, Tennessee photographed circa 1935 Lincoln Memorial University collection TN Identifier li00193.jpg|thumb|The Stover farmhouse, where Johnson died,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Federal writers' project |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066068928&view=1up&seq=347&q1=%22Daniel%20Stover%22 |title=Tennessee: a guide to the state, compiled and written by the Federal writers' project of the Work projects administration for the state of Tennessee |last2=Pappas |first2=Douglas |publisher=The Viking Press |year=1939 |series=American guide series |location=New York |pages=319 |language=en-us |via=[[HathiTrust]]}}</ref> as photographed {{circa|1935}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=[House where Andrew Johnson died] / [photographed by R. Gerald McMurtry]. |url=https://dla.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/Lincoln/id/86/rec/6 |access-date=2023-07-18 |website=dla.contentdm.oclc.org |language=en}}</ref> ]]
Johnson returned home after the special session concluded. In late July 1875, convinced some of his opponents were defaming him in the Ohio gubernatorial race, he decided to travel there to give speeches. He began the trip on July 28, and broke the journey at his daughter Mary's farm near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee|Elizabethton]], where his daughter Martha was also staying. That evening he had a stroke, but refused medical treatment until the next day, when he did not improve and two doctors were sent for from Elizabethton. He seemed to respond to their ministrations, but had another stroke on the evening of July 30, and died early the following morning at the age of 66. President Grant had the "painful duty" of announcing the death of the only surviving past president. Northern newspapers, in their obituaries, tended to focus on Johnson's loyalty during the war, while Southern ones paid tribute to his actions as president. Johnson's funeral was held on August 3 in Greeneville.{{Sfn|Trefousse|pp=375–377}}{{Sfn|Gordon-Reed|p=143}} He was buried with his body wrapped in an American flag and a copy of the U.S. Constitution placed under his head, according to his wishes. The burial ground was dedicated as the [[Andrew Johnson National Cemetery]] in 1906, and with his home and tailor's shop, is part of the [[Andrew Johnson National Historic Site]].{{Sfn|Trefousse|p=377}}