Jumat, 09 Desember 2016

Lincoln’s Last Witness: James Tanner and the Assassination of Lincoln

By the time Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, James R. Tanner had seen enough of bloodshed. Just 17 years old at the outbreak of the Civil War, he had enlisted in Company C of the 87th New York Infantry, with which he participated in some of the heaviest fighting in Virginia in 1862—notably the …

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