It was America’s first full-blown celebrity wedding, choreographed, publicized and staged by P.T. Barnum, the genius of hype, and it came in the depths of the Civil War, when Americans were eager for a moment of joyous distraction. The groom was Charles Stratton, 25, the world’s most famous midget, a 3-foot-tall man with a gift …
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