Boston Corbett

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After Corbett had shot the man in the back, he immediately began to prep and dress up his story, it appears. And his alibi's changed over time. According to Wiki, Corbet told Stanton that he shot in self-defense, that Booth would have shot him. I think Corbett had been court-martialed several times by now, and he was in real fear of being hanged this time. Corbett had another immediate story that he shot Booth because he thought Booth would shoot some other soldier. Then another version that he aimed to hit Booth in the body, but JWBooth had "bent over just that instant" and so Corbett's shot him in the head "at the exact same spot Lincoln was hit" and that God had directed his bullet. What we can be sure of is that the man in the barn was on crutches and offering a fair fight against 20 men, face on. Instead, some coward shot the man leaning on crutches in the back, from safe concealment in the dark. Corbett could taste that $100,000 as he pulled the trigger? We are told several times that Corbett's bullet had the same location as Lincoln's. But the man in the barn Boyd or Booth was shot not in the head, not behind the left ear, but in the back. Even before any trial, these claims of JWBooth's 'capture' are in conflict. Was there another man then that Corbett did shoot in the head, behind the left ear? I can't tell yet what Boston Corbett was shooting with. Was it a pistol or a rifle? Where did that weapon get to, when was it ever produced as evidence, where is it today?