Tag: Boston Corbett

Born Thomas P. Corbett, Boston Corbett is known for killing John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin. Less known is that he lived in Camden, NJ.

A digitally scanned book called “Abraham Lincoln and Boston Corbett”

The religious history of Camden, NJ, from George Reeser Prowell’s History of Camden County, New Jersey, 1886

Honest Abe almost lost Camden City in 1864: 3332 to 2758 votes for McClellan.

He shot and killed the Abraham Lincoln assassin. He was arrested. His sanity became a question.

The year was 1870 at 308 Mechanic Street. Camden, NJ. The occupant of the house was a mad hatter — a man who shot the man who shot Abraham Lincoln.

Philadelphia Inquirer – February 13, 1903

Boston Corbett, Who Killed Wilkes Booth, Remembered by Many Old Residents of the City.

This is a half-page excerpt of a multi-page article about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, published in Harper’s Weekly. I

“Sergt. Boston Corbett, Company L, Sixteenth New York Cavalry asked permission to enter the barn alone, which I refused. Booth all this time was very defiant and refused to surrender.”