Richard Baynham Garrett on Finis Bates

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The Garrett son/boy watching events and later retelling them. And his opinion of Boston Corbett must have been very low. Richard Baynham Garrett documents that Boston Corbett was a coward and a liar, here,

Through the cracks could be seen the form of Booth standing in the middle of the building, supported by his crutch. In his hands he held a carbine. At this instant, Sergeant Corbett fired through a crack in the wall. He said afterward that Booth had a gun to his shoulder and was about to kill one of the officers. This is not so, as I was standing within six feet of Corbett when he fired the shot, and Booth never made a motion to shoot."

Corbett lied also to say that God directed his shot to the exact same location behind the ear as Lincoln was shot. Corbett, purporting himself as an honest Christian, would recite this absurd lie at lectures and church sermons. What a great mercy that the boy Richard B. Garrett lived long enough to write down his statement, and showing that Boston Corbett was a fraud posing as a 'reformed Christian'.