The Clements was gifted a rare shorthand account of Abraham Lincoln’s final moments. Mrs Nellie Strawheuker donated the account of Corp. James Tanner, a clerk in the War Dept at the time, who was with the former President when he died. The letter is addressed to Henry F. Walch and describes Tanner’s having “the priviledge of standing by the death bed of the most remarkable man of modern times, and one who will live in the annals of his Country as long as she pro continues to have a history.”
