02445cam a2200313 4500 527612206 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781613730218 1613730217 B00U58R3I4 Amazon 9cf2b9b5-0792-4381-83f9-11f2f54fb834 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2153799 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Martelle, Scott. The Madman and the Assassin [Libby eBook] : The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth. Chicago Review Press, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3028kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>As thoroughly examined as the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth have been, virtually no attention has been paid to the life of the Union cavalryman who killed Booth, an odd character named Boston Corbett. The killing of Booth made Corbett an instant celebrity whose peculiarities made him the object of fascination and derision. Corbett was an English immigrant, a hatter by trade, who was likely poisoned by the mercury then used in the manufacturing process. A devout Christian, he castrated himself so that his sexual urges would not distract him from serving God. He was one of the first volunteers to join the US Army in the first days of the Civil War, a path that would in time land him in the notorious Andersonville prison camp, and eventually in the squadron that cornered Booth in a Virginia barn. <i>The Madman and the Assassin</i> is the first full-length biography of Boston Corbett, a man who was something of a prototypical modern American, thrust into the spotlight during a national news event—an unwelcome transformation from anonymity to celebrity.</p>. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/madman-and-the-9cf2b9?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/madman-and-the-9cf2b9?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/madman-and-the-9cf2b9?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)