Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1889 — How Corporal Tanner Is Maimed. [ARTICLE]

How Corporal Tanner Is Maimed.

Albany Times. It isfa general misstatement on the part of various journals that Corporal Tanner, the newly appointed Commissioner of Pensions, lost both legs in the war. Corporal Tanner lost both feet. His legs are intact above the ankle. But his sufferings are still acute. He is a regular attendant during the summer at RounclsLftke, and his misery there, resulting from hia ancient wounds, has been illustrated by nights of moaning. It is torture to him to stand or walk. There is no patent relief for him, as there is for a lost leg, for there is no leverage by which a patent foot can be strapped as a leg may. But with all this torture upon him, the Corporal has continued all through to be an active and a pushing man.