America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (UnCivil Wars)

by James Marten

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James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the lower third of both his legs and afterward had to reinvent himself. After a brush with fame as the stenographer taking down testimony a few feet away from the dying President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, Tanner eventually became one of the best-known men in Gilded Age America. He was a highly placed Republican operative, a popular Grand Army of the Republic speaker, an entrepreneur, and a celebrity. He earned fame and...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780820343204
  • Publish Date 15 May 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Georgia Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 216
  • Language English