Boston Corbett the man who killed John Wilkes Booth

Boston was a sergeant known for killing Lincolns assassin.
== Early life ==
Boston was born in London in 1832 and moved to New York in 1840 were he became a milliner, he would later join the U.S. Army during the Civil War and become a Sergeant for the 12th regiment in 1861. 
== Shooting of Booth ==
In 1865 Boston Corbett and his regiment were sent to capture John Wike's Booth who was hiding in a local tobacco farm in a shack when they arrived he shouted "I will not be taken alive!" which lead to the shack being lit on fire and Boston claimed that Booth had a carbine causing him killing Booth.
== after ==
Boston later met up with some other soldiers in Ohio and got into an argument over Booth making Boston kill them before the situation was defused, he later became the doorkeeper for the House of Representatives for Kansas in January of 1887, he was later arrested after pulling a pistol on an officer and was believed to have fled Mexico in May of 1888 but went Minnesota were he built a cabin were his is believed to have died in the Great Hickey Fire of 1894.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Corbett#Post-war_lifehttps://lincolnconspirators.com/picture-galleries/found-on-booth/