The Grenada sentinel., 1903-09-12
CORPORAL TANNER HERE.
1e9less Union Veteran Visitor t
New Orleans.
Renews Friendship With Gen.
Badger and Capt. Febiser.
I'm Route East From the Grand Army
Encampment.
e. arried Once on Shoulder, Of Confederate
Veterans


Veterans
Corporal James Tanner, a legless
AniOn verteran, but an honorary life
xneMher of the r. e. Lee Camp,
Iaitad Confederate Veterans of
Richmond, is New Orleans visitor.
CorporA Tanner arrived in New
0r}eanS Wednesday evening, coming
srom San Francisco, where he had
Acen to attend his twenty-ninth
*krand Army OF the Republic encamp-
Hzeut, and stopped over here for few
s4ayS to look up personal friends. 1t
sSaS Corporal Tanner who attended
the Richmond reunion as the guest OF
the Washington Camp, Confederate
S:eterans, where he was called to the
4i2tform by Gen. Gordon and intro
stdced to the assembled veterans. On
this occasion Corporal Tanner made a
speech dauding the bravery of the men
and women of the South that brought
tears to almost every eye in the
1ssemhlage, and at its conclusion, he
17zas lifted upon the shoulders of the
sxerdy old Confederates and paraded
s&rough the auditorium amid the
.:iaeers of thousands of men and
women.
POPULAR WITH CONFEDERATEs.
Capt. j. g. Febiger, an old friend,
called for Corporal Tanner at the
isssel early in the morning, and drove
Rim about the city. Later in the
dag he called upon E. J. Kursheedt,
.1s=aing postmaster, and Gen. Badger,
zS the Custome House. Returning to
Efee hotel, he was introduced to Mr..
Efakeley. Immediately they began
It's swap" war stories, and it develop
ri that each had been manned in the
same Battle on the same day.
Corporal Tanner has always been
prominently identified with the
t1rand Army of the Republic, but at
ff1e recent encampment at San Fran
rEscO, he was made Judge advocate by
the new Commander-in-Chie He is
Grry proud of the honors bestowed
upon him by the Confederate veterans,
ard relates the incident leading up to
Il with a great deal of relish.
Some years ago." he said. when
L vas tax collector in Brooklyn, re-
Seived in my mail one day a circular
stating that the Virginia veterans
were arranging fair to raise funds to
Establish soldiers home decided
Haat wanted to buy few bricks
sE chat home, and also wanted nv
sr1ends to buy few, so sent out
mites to five men to meet me at nv
s'<Ece at 5 O'Clock. They arrived
almost simultaneously, and laid the
circular before them. They wanted
- know what was going to do about
e. and told them we would have a
lecture at the Academy OF Music to
zzSe fund for that home. secured
she academy and a lecture for the
ssacasion, with Henry Ward Beecher
ID make few remarks. sold 1000
eEkets myself at 81 each, while the
sea1ers sold quite number, after de-
fE2ying all expenses of the lecture we
2ent the committee at Richmond a
staock for somethinglover $1,000. telling
the members that we wanted to buy
4 few bricks in that Johnnie Reb'
hDaae. In 1896, the WASHINGTON
Gimp, Confederate Veterans, invited
ne to accompany them to the Rich
Dond reunion. which 1 did. was
1oog' for couple Of days, but on the
third day, was invited to the plat
farm by Gen. Gordon, and was given
Che greatest ovation 1 ever received.
AT L1NCoLN's DEATHBEAD.
YES" said the Corporal, II was
7S the bedside of Abraham Lincoln
when he died. 1 lived next door to
the house where he was carried after
he was shot, and Gen. Stanton sent
for me to- take down the testimony
At the witnesses. I was at that time
about twenty-one years of age, and
Was a clerk in the War Department
and stenographer. 1t was on that
night that I learned why Stanton
vas termed the iron man. At the
table where 1 sat taking notes were
Stanton and Judge Carter of the
Supreme Court. The name of the
only witness I can remember is that
Of Harry Hawks, the actor, who