Boston Corbett
Books
- Where Is Booth? The Twelve-Day Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth · Liszt Think
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theatre into the Maryland night. What followed were twelve days of desperate evasion and relentless pursuit across the Potomac tidewater.
- The Sergeant at the Navy Yard Bridge…Cobb’s error had created would narrow progressively, until it closed at the Garrett farm with the smoke of burning tobacco and the crack of Boston Corbett’s pistol. But that condensation lay in the future. At 10: 30 p. m. On April 14, 1865, two riders moved eastward through darkness that seeme…
- The Refuge at the Garrett Farm…ed cavalry, armed and provisioned for extended operation, carrying warrants that authorized them to arrest or kill. Among them was Sergeant Boston Corbett, a figure whose presence in the record would acquire retrospective significance. Thomas H. “Boston” Corbett was an American soldier and mil…
- The Burning Barn…plied. It was long enough for deliberation, for alternative courses of action to be considered and rejected, for the peculiar psychology of Boston Corbett to assert itself against the military discipline that had, until this moment, contained it. The immediate aftermath of the shot revealed th…