03072nam 2200697 450 991046487460332120200520144314.00-8203-4322-6(CKB)3710000000116822(EBL)1698734(SSID)ssj0001223824(PQKBManifestationID)11790688(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001223824(PQKBWorkID)11232969(PQKB)10879120(MiAaPQ)EBC1698734(OCoLC)880878120(MdBmJHUP)muse38463(Au-PeEL)EBL1698734(CaPaEBR)ebr10878565(CaONFJC)MIL613990(EXLCZ)99371000000011682220140612h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerica's corporal James Tanner in war and peace /James MartenAthens, Georgia :The University of Georgia Press,2014.©20141 online resource (214 p.)Uncivil WarsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8203-4321-8 0-8203-4320-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 fortuneUncivil wars.SoldiersNew York (State)Schoharie CountyBiographyDisabled veteransUnited StatesBiographyAmputeesUnited StatesBiographyVeteransUnited StatesBiographyNew York (State)HistoryCivil War, 1861-1865BiographyUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865BiographyCobleskill (N.Y.)BiographyElectronic books.SoldiersDisabled veteransAmputeesVeterans362.4086/97092Marten James Alan867960MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464874603321America's corporal1937574UNINA