Time for a memorial honoring Boston Corbett?

[Wild Bill]

Steve's point is a good one originally made by Col. Juian E Raymond, a WW II combat vet, and discussed in Robert A Fowler, "Album of the Lincoln Murder," Civil War Times Illustrated, 4 (No. 4,July 1965), 49. Most of the criticisms mentioned in many of the posts above are discussed in Richter and Smith, The Last Shot (Tucson: Wheatmark, 2016), 124ff.

The conclusion was that Booth was shot with a .44 cal. bullet, a pistol round from a Colt's Army revolver which Booth possessed, rather than the 52. cal. bullet of the standard cavalry carbine, the Spencer. I realize that this goes against the "standard" story of Garrett's Farm shooting, but I am willing to stand by my work, and I think Rick is, too, but I will let him speak for himself.