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Steve · 04-27-2018, 08:21 PM

I came across this article from a few years ago about James Tanner that I thought might be interesting:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/201504...DYING.html

STS Lincolnite · (This post was last modified: 05-07-2018 03:55 PM by STS Lincolnite.)

Thanks for posting this Steve. I have wondered in the past where those notes were. I would love to see them sometime.

Tanner was an interesting man and lived an interesting life. His transcribing testimony at the Petersen House was only a part.

For those who may want to learn a little more about him, Marquette History Professor James Marten wrote a biography for him entitled America’s Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KLONXCM/ref...TF8&btkr=1

Dr. Marten gave a nice talk on the subject of Tanner a couple of years ago at the Surratt Conference and also spoke about him at a recent Civil War Institute Conference. I had hoped one of his talks on Tanner had been recorded for c-span or otherwise but I wasn't able to find one posted.