America's Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace
- ISBN-10
- 082034320X
- ISBN-13
- 9780820343204
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Author
- James Alan Marten
Description
The first biography of one of the Civil War's most famous disabled veterans and most prominent public figures in the Gilded Age. An examination of the dynamics of disability, the culture and politics of the Gilded Age, and the aftereffects of the Civil War.
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