[Boston Corbett] [graphic] [ca. 1865]

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[Boston Corbett] [graphic] [ca. 1865]

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Three-quarters length seated portrait of Boston Corbett. He is wearing his Union uniform and is seated at a table with a book. His military cap rests on the table next to an ornate clock.

1 photographic print pasted down on paper : albumen, b&w ; print 8 x 6 cm., sheet 25 x 20 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Corbett, Boston, 1832-

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Soldier; wounded John Wilkes Booth at Lincoln's assassination. From the description of Boston Corbett signature, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449921 Boston Corbett was born as Thomas H. Corbett at London, United Kingdom, in 1832. He came to America with his parents in 1839 and settled in Troy, New York. Boston was apprenticed as a hatter in Connecticut. His wife died during childbirth in 1855. Boston changed his name after attending a Methodist revival in Boston...