Boston Corbett

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(01-10-2016 08:29 AM)Gene C Wrote:  I am so glad you find interesting parallels.

Try this idea, maybe Corbett's mind wasn't working rationally, and hadn't for many years

You may find this food for thought, a quote from an article found on the internet.
"Corbett was arrested, declared insane, and committed to the state hospital in Topeka. In May 1888, while taking a walk on the grounds with other patients, Corbett saw a horse hitched near the entrance and used it to make his escape. He rode south to Neodesha, stayed with a friend for a couple days, then said he was leaving for Mexico.

A few years later a man claiming to be Corbett surfaced, trying to collect his pension. He was found to be an impostor. No further official record of Corbett exists."

Unlike many of your posts, here is my source
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/thomas-p...bett/15134

Quote: Why did Corbett the 'Jesus clone with hair and renewed peaceful Christianity', what reason did Boston Corbett have to sign up and zealously wish to go South and shoot those folks living there? If Corbett was true to himself or Christianity he now professed, he would certainly never have done that. While John Brown wanted to end slavery, Boston Corbett did not say any such thing. The invigorated new christian, Corbett, did not enlist because he wanted to end slavery.

This isn't the place for this type of discussion, but you have an unhealthy lack of knowledge regarding the Bible and what it has to say about Christianity, and the relationship between God and man.

Gene, I suspect that the Bible is a foreign language to maharba, who has already espoused atheism to us on this forum. Also, I question why he singles out Corbett as going against God's will (instead of with it) when we all should realize that the vast majority of those who fought on both sides of the Civil War were Christians who believed their cause was the just one.

I have also been told by both James O. Hall and Michael Kauffman that, in their many years of research, they never found that the troops were ordered to take Booth alive. Law enforcement people have also told me that that is a rather dumb order because it places the police/soldiers/whoever in grave danger - they will hold their fire to protect the criminal while he/she is busy aiming at and shooting them!