James Tanner

[L Verge]

Just received the latest issue of Civil War Monitor. It has a long, feature article on Cpl. James Tanner, the amputee who took down statements in the Petersens' back parlor as Mr. Lincoln lay dying. I never knew that he went on to participate in so much history of the late-19th century.

The article is written by James Marten, a professor at Marquette University, who has a full book coming out this spring on America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace. It is being published by The University of Georgia Press -- and I think I smell the possibility of a speaker for the Surratt Conference in 2015...

The same magazine has an ad for books being published by Southern Illinois Press. Included are: Abraham Lincoln: Philosopher Statesman by Joseph E. Fornieri; We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, a Documentary History, edited by Gary Phillip Zola; Lincoln and the Union Governors by William C. Harris, and Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops by John David Smith -- the latter two being added to the Concise Lincoln Library.