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Author Marten, James Alan, author

Title America's corporal : James Tanner in war and peace / James Marten
Published Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 199 pages)
Series Uncivil wars
Uncivil wars.
Contents Prologue: no regrets -- The war hit me and hit me hard: Jimmie Tanner's Civil War -- Living with disability: Jim Tanner reinvents himself -- Brooklyn days: becoming Corporal Tanner -- God help the surplus: Corporal Tanner and Civil War pensions -- The most celebrated GAR man in the world: legacies -- Epilogue and conclusion: the footless ghost
Summary 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 least temporary fortune
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Tanner, James, 1844-1927.
SUBJECT Tanner, James, 1844-1927
Tanner, James, 1844-1927 fast
Subject United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 87th (1861-1862)
SUBJECT United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 87th (1861-1862) fast
Subject Soldiers -- New York (State) -- Schoharie County -- Biography
Disabled veterans -- United States -- Biography
Amputees -- United States -- Biography
Veterans -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Amputees
Disabled veterans
Soldiers
Veterans
SUBJECT New York (State) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140214
Cobleskill (N.Y.) -- Biography
Subject New York (State)
New York (State) -- Cobleskill
New York (State) -- Schoharie County
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780820343228
0820343226