Boston Corbett

Boston Corbett

Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett (1832 – presumed dead1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He disappeared after 1888, but circumstantial evidence suggests that he died in the Great Hinckley Fire in 1894, although this remains impossible to substantiate.

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