Editing John Wilkes Booth (section)

=== Death ===
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After being on the run for twelve days, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold were eventually cornered at a farm. While Herold surrendered, Booth refused to surrender. After a short firefight, a sergeant named [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Boston_Corbett Boston Corbett] crept up behind the barn and shot Booth, severing his spinal cord with the bullet wound being in "the back of the head about an inch below the spot where his [Booth's] shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln". Booth was carried out onto the steps of the barn. A soldier poured water into his mouth, which Booth immediately spatting out, unable to swallow. He told the soldier: "Tell my mother I die for my country." In agony, unable to move his limbs, he asked a soldier to lift his hands before his face. His last words were "Useless, useless." when he asked for his hands to be raised to his face. 26-year-old John Wilkes Booth died at 7:29 A.M on April 26, 1865.

John Wilkes Booth's body was buried in a storage room at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary, then in a warehouse and finally interred in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, four years after his death.