Boston Corbett Killed John Wilkes Booth and Also Castrated Himself

Boston Corbett is said to have had mental issues from the start, but his exposure to mercury while working as a hatter is likely what made them worse. Two prostitutes approached Corbett and made an unexpected proposition to him. The temptation he sensed worried him as he chastised them and made his way home.

He looked to the Book of Matthew in the Bible to find the answers he was looking for. It states: "And if thy right eye annoy thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee....and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake." Corbett castrated himself after adopting a literal reading of the Bible.

After killing Abraham Lincoln in 1865, John Wilkes Booth fled on a horse. The 16th New York Cavalry Regiment was the regiment that was used by the military to find the murderer. When they discovered him in a barn, Boston Corbett shot Wilkes in the neck with his handgun.

Despite the fact that this was his greatest claim to fame, Corbett enjoyed a fascinating and intriguing life. After 1894, he also disappeared and was never again seen. But throughout his lifetime, the surgery he did on himself was the most obvious example of his peculiarities. He castrated himself in 1858 in an effort to control his prostitution inclinations. After the deed, he went to supper rather than getting help. Historians now think that Corbett, who had once worked as a hatter, had ingested a lot of harmful chemicals that had impacted his mental state.