Andrew Johnson (17th U.S. President)

Andrew Johnson serves as the seventeenth President of the United States and the historical official who rescinded Special Field Order No. 15, reversing a wartime promise of land to newly freed people. In the series he operates as a moral and political touchstone: characters invoke his decision to dramatize the long arc of dispossession and to pressure contemporary actors toward reparative urgency. Episode dialogue casts his name as executive authority that reshaped Reconstruction policy and as an emblem of governmental choices that continue to haunt public memory.