[Rarebooks] fs: Personal recollections of Lincoln and Boston Corbett (shooter of John Wilkes Booth). Scarce.

[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 Lincoln, saw him often during 
his presidency, and lived in sight of Ford's Theatre at the time of the 
assassination. These are his personal recollections of Lincoln and the 
events surrounding his assassination. Johnson relates an incident where a 
neighbor's home is raided just hours after Lincoln's death and a concealed 
Confederate flag is recovered. The narrative then moves to a detailed 
account of the shooting of John Wilkes Booth by Boston Corbett. Johnson was 
also acquainted with Corbett, and was in Edwin Stanton's office during 
Secretary of War's questioning of Corbett regarding his shooting of Booth. 
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.
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