John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, dies of his wounds in Port Royal, Virginia. Booth, who had fled with David Herold, refused to surrender while surrounded by Union soldiers in a tobacco barn. Union Sergeant Boston Corbett mortally wounded Booth as Booth remained in the barn.
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