    
Title: James Tanner Description: James Tanner (April 4, 1844-October 2, 1927) who rented a room in a house next door to the William Petersen boarding house; when Tanner heard there was need there for someone to take shorthand accounts from witnesses to the shooting of Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865), he volunteered, having studied stenography and shorthand; his record of events of the assassination that night remain the most comprehensive of those following the Lincoln shooting; a New York school teacher before the American Civil War (1861-1865), he became a corporal with the Union Army's eighty-seventh New York Volunteer Infantry in the Peninsula Campaign (April-July 1862) and the Second Battle of Bull Run (AKA: Manassas, August 29-30) in which he received injuries requiring both of his legs to be amputated just below the knees; he learned to work with artificial wooden legs and was a clerk in the War Department in Washington at the time of Lincoln's assassination; he later became a lawyer; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: American Civil War (1861-1865), assassinations, Manassas, Peninsula Campaign, presidents of the U.S., Second Battle of Bull Run, shorthand, stenographers, U.S. presidents. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1639 (1.97 MPixels) (1.37) Print Size: 10.2 x 13.9 cm; 4.0 x 5.5 inches File Size: 5.65 MB (5,928,158 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530747 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
