The new Practical Shorthand Manual; a Complete and Comprehensive Exposition of Pitman Shorthand

by Benn Pitman

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198 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

English-born author and popularizer in the United States of Pitman shorthand.

During the first years of the Civil War, he served in the Union Army.

From 1863 to 1867, he acted as the official stenographer during the trials of the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, the “Sons of Liberty,” the “Ku-Klux Klan,” and other similar government prosecutions.

He also edited and compiled the printed reports of these trials.