America's Corporal
America's Corporal

Author: James Alan Marten

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0820343218

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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.

America's Corporal
America's Corporal

Author: James Alan Marten

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 082034320X

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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.

History of Corporal Fess Whitaker
History of Corporal Fess Whitaker

Author: Fess Whitaker

Publisher:

Published: 1918

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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18 years a miner, 9 years on the railroad, 6 years a soldier, and 5 years a politician. This is the life of Corporal Fess Whitaker. Whitaker spent most of his life in the Kentucky Mountains, with stints in Virginia as a coal miner, in Texas with the Fort Worth & Denver Railroad, and abroad as a soldier. He includes a good deal of pioneer history and reminiscences of old timers, including those of Uncle Wesley Banks, the "Bugger Man" schoolmaster.