Boston Corbett

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Another book. Did he say WHOM Thomas Corbett had married and where and when? I wonder how legit the 'wife died in childbirth' copy-over narrative really is. Did he mention any of Corbett's lesser known insanities like trying to murder a judge?

Thomas "Boston" Corbett would have done better to lower the tone and stridency level of his sermons and lectures. If Seward or Phillips had written a boilerplate oration or two which continued the deification of Lincoln and then have Corbett deliver these in churches and funerals, he might really have cleaned up some cash. Next would be to have someone (sane) ghostwrite an autobiography of himself, and first run it as a serial in a popular magazine. Instead, the religion that Boston Corbett had got --and worsened with-- was the stale 'gospel yelling' that Lincoln was so familiar with from Rev David Elkin, Peter Cartwright, etc.