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    Sergeant Thomas H. "Boston" Corbett (January 29, 1832 – disappeared c. May 26, 1888) was an English-born American soldier and milliner who killed John...
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    Brook Park, with a tall obelisk on top of a granite marker. Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett, the Union soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth after Booth's assassination...
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    a barn. Herold surrendered, but Booth was shot to death by Sergeant Boston Corbett. Herold was tried by a military tribunal, sentenced to death for conspiracy...
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    standoff. After the authorities set the barn ablaze, Union soldier Boston Corbett fatally shot him in the neck. Paralyzed, he died a few hours later....
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    an unhinged state, took revenge on those who could by killing them. Boston Corbett (January 29, 1832 – c. In or after 1888) was an English-born American...
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  • Kelly as Jonathan Lamson Wayne Pére William Mark McCullough as Sergeant Boston Corbett Judd Lormand as Colonel Everton Conger Alex Collins as General William...
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  • guitarist, singer, and bandleader Boston Charley (c. 1854–1873), Native American warrior in the Modoc War Boston Corbett (1832–presumed dead 1894), American...
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    after refusing to surrender, John Wilkes Booth was shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett. On November 24, 1963, on his way to the county jail, Lee Harvey Oswald...
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    phrase 'mad as an atter' originally meant 'as venomous as a viper'." Boston Corbett, who shot Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, spent his early...
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  • Thomas P. Corbett (1914–1995), American politician and jurist Tom Corbett, character in Above Us the Waves Boston Corbett (Thomas H. Corbett, 1832–1894)...
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