Boston Corbett

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(01-05-2016 12:57 AM)maharba Wrote:  Boston Corbett tried to assassinate the same man who notarized his Pension Application, Judge Brown. I'm guessing Boston Corbett would have shot him in the back by ambush, too. "The will of God telling him to do it", I suppose. I wonder if that sneak assassination technique was not something he used a time or two, in his strange enlistments in the Federal army? I also wonder if Boston Corbet was not signing up (multiple) as an "enlistment substitute" or "representative recruit" and getting paid the $300 bounty. He would go missing in action or 'go nuts' or act up with some contrived 'religious complaint', get cashiered out, and come back again for more $300 sign up money? A hatter he worked with in NY said that he recruited Boston Corbett to sign up, which makes me consider "representative recruit". Such a man would be very anxious to, later, go in search of a $100,000 bounty, and would be bitter at only receiving a small portion of it, for another murder. That I can see, he spent 5 months in Andersonville and drew a pittance of a pension of first $12 then $25 a month.

Please cite your sources for this information, especially the attempt on the judge. I have worked with three of the best historians in the field, regarding Corbett and the entire Garrett patrol, over the past forty years, and I have never read any of this or heard them mention such incidents.

I have not read the newest book on the subject, The Madman and the Assassin, but I have heard no one complain about such spurious information in it. Please tell me where you get these comments.