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the Lincoln assassination as The Onion headlines

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The Dollop - Episode 117 - Boston Corbett - Live With Patton Oswalt

The Dollop – Episode 117 – Boston Corbett – Live With Patton Oswalt

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds are joined by Patton Oswalt to examine Boston Corbett live at the Audible Los Angeles Podcast Festival.

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The Strange Tale of Sergeant Boston Corbett

How does one explain Boston Corbett?  Let me just consult the book American Brutus by Michael W. Kauffman...

Sgt. Boston Corbett, thirty-two, was a four-year veteran with an outstanding record for bravery.  He was born Thomas H. Corbett in London, but moved to the United States at an early age and grew up in Troy, New York.  He learned the trade of hatter, got married, and planned to start a family.  But when death claimed his wife and newborn child, Corbett fell into a profound depression.  He eventually drifted up to New England and underwent a spiritual awakening.  Renaming himself Boston Corbett, for the city of his rebirth, he grew his hair and beard in the fashion of Jesus Christ and dedicated himself to a pious existence in the service of God.  Of his sincerity, he left no room for doubt.  He once encountered a couple of prostitutes, and resolved to put himself above their temptations.  Returning to his room, he cut off his testicles with a pair of scissors, and spent two weeks recovering at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Though Corbett was only five feet four inches tall, he made up in confidence what he lacked in stature.  He once upbraided an officer who took the Lord’s name in vain, and was given a harsh confinement--which he actually enjoyed, because it gave him some time alone with his Bible.  In early 1864 he was captured in a fight against Mosby and was sent to Andersonville.  He nearly died there, but the Confederates released him, even without an exchange, and he recovered miraculously.  When he returned to his unit, he held the rank of sergeant.

........and this is the guy who ended up shooting and mortally wounding Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

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On April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded and killed by federal troops near Bowling Green, Virginia. Booth had been on the run for twelve days after he shot the President in Ford's Theatre​.

After escaping the theater, Booth had been pursued by Edward Paul Doherty (left), a Canadian U.S. Civil War officer who formed and led the detachment of soldiers that eventually tracked Booth down to a tobacco barn in Virginia. With the barn surrounded, Doherty called upon Booth to surrender, but he refused and threatened to shoot anyone who entered. His accomplice, David Herold, relented and surrendered.

In response to the assassin's continued resistance, the soldiers set fire to the barn. Sergeant Thomas “Boston” Corbett (right) fatally shot Booth through a crack in the side of the barn, claiming the fugitive had "raised his pistol to shoot". Doherty stated that "the bullet struck Booth in the back of the head, about an inch below the spot where his shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln." Doherty and the men of his regiment returned to Washington, DC on April 27 with Booth's body. Herold was tried by a military tribunal, found guilty, and hung in July that year.

For his service in the capture of Lincoln's assassin, Doherty was promoted to Captain and given a $5,250 reward ($76,086.96 today), while Corbett received $1,653.84 ($25,000 today).

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“Capt. Edward P. Doherty, (John Wilkes) Booth's Captor“ 

“Sgt. Boston Corbett”

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“He was a desperate man, and fully determined to die rather than to be taken alive; and it was only when it was actually necessary that I shot him.”

Boston Corbett, letter describing why he shot John Wilkes Booth, May 11 1865