Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett, 1832 - after 1888 Search this
Medium:
Albumen silver print
Dimensions:
Image/Sheet: 7.9 x 5.5 cm (3 1/8 x 2 3/16")
Mount: 10.1 x 6.1 cm (4 x 2 3/8")
Type:
Photograph
Date:
1865
Exhibition Label:
Born London, England
Boston Corbett is the man who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth. He joined the Union army at the outbreak of the Civil War and reenlisted three times, eventually becoming a sergeant in the Sixteenth New York Cavalry. On April 24, 1865, Corbett and twenty-five other men from the Sixteenth were selected to pursue Lincoln’s assassin. Two days later they cornered Booth in a tobacco barn on Richard Garrett’s Virginia farm. The barn was set on fire, and Booth’s co-conspirator, David Herold, surrendered while Booth remained inside. Despite orders to take him alive, Corbett shot Booth through a crack in the side of the barn, puncturing his spinal cord. Dragged from the barn, Booth died a few hours later. Corbett received his share of the $100,000 reward money, amounting to $1,653.85.
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