[Rarebooks] fs: Boston Corbett, shooter of John Wilkes Booth

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 9996 )  [Johnson, Byron Berkeley]. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND BOSTON CORBETT, WITH PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF EACH; JOHN WILKES BOOTH AND JEFFERSON DAVIS, A TRUE STORY OF THEIR CAPTURE.
Waltham, MA: Byron Berkeley Johnson, 1914. First printing, Original cloth, Octavo, 71 pages, black and white photographic plates. Fine.
      Fascinating little book. Johnson knew both Lincoln and Boston Corbett (shooter of John Wilkes Booth). Johnson first met Lincoln at the Galesburg debate with Stephen Douglas in 1858, then saw him often during his presidency, and lived in sight of Ford's Theatre at the time of the assassination. Here are his personal recollections of Lincoln and the events surrounding his assassination. Johnson relates an incident wherein a neighbor's home is raided within hours of Lincoln's death and a concealed Confederate flag seized. There is detailed account of the shooting of John Wilkes Booth by Boston Corbett and a description of Edwin Stanton's questioning of Corbett regarding same. Johnson is able to describe the latter because he was one of the few people present. Here is as much biographical information on Corbett, both before and after shooting Booth, as one is likely to find, including his May, 1865 letter recounting his capture and imprisonment at Andersonville and other incidents. To conclude the book, Johnson sorts out the many stories of the capture of Jefferson Davis, debunking the version in which Davis dons his wife's dress in an attempt to flee. MONAGHAN #2149; HOUMES p. 47. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with upper board titled in gilt surrounded by a gilt-stamped shield. An exceptionally nice copy with just the slightest rubs to spine ends and fore corner tips.    $325.00 
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