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America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (UnCivil Wars Ser.)
James Marten
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Description for America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (UnCivil Wars Ser.)
Paperback. Series: Uncivil Wars. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
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 at ... Read more
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 at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Uncivil Wars
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820343211
SKU
V9780820343211
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Ref
99-3
About James Marten
James Marten is chair of the Department of History at Marquette University. He is the author of Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America, Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front, and The Children’s Civil War.
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