President Johnson dismisses his critic, Jane Grey Swisshelm, from her War Department job

Jane Swisshelm, the veteran abolitionist and women's rights journalist and editor, had been engaged as a government clerk by Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, who was an admirer of her work as a wartime nurse. This did not curtail her journalism, however, and she had opened a new journal, The Reconstructionist.  Her written criticism of President Johnson proved too much and Johnson had her dismissed from her government clerkship on this day.  (By John Osborne)