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Thomas H. "Boston" Corbett was an English-born American soldier and milliner who, on April 26, 1865, killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
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A photograph of Corbett in his Union Army uniform.
An 1865 wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold.
"The killing of Booth, the assassin - the dying murderer drawn from the barn where he had taken refuge, on Garrett's farm, near Port Royal, Va., April 26, 1865" (Frank Leslie's Illustrated News)
The porch of the Garrett farmhouse, where Booth died
Boston Corbett
Corbett photographed by Mathew BradyAbout this person
Country
United StatesType
Other
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1832 to 1894 · aged 62
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