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To: nolu chan
Why, we were just working our way through the pantheon of certifiable lunatics whom you hold in such high regard.

The only people I've mentioned is Lincoln and Sherman. Whatever the Quirks of the other 15 or so million people of the North at that time, I don't know of nor do I care of.

For another example, look at the Presidential box at Ford's Theater. Half of Washington declined an invitation to spend an evening with The Lincoln and his crazy wife, leaving them to settle for Major Rathbone and his ugly step-sister, Clara Harris. Major Rathbone went on to murder Clara in Germany and then spent the rest of his life in a German insane asylum.

Fascinating...not. Why are you telling me this stuff? Who cares? I don't care if Rathbone was a murderer, I don't care if Thad killed a cow, I don't care what any quirks any Confederate had.

1,125 posted on 03/21/2004 11:25:07 PM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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To: #3Fan
Continuing our review of certified lunatics:

See LINK

BOSTON CORBETT
The Man They Called Sin Huevos

Boston Corbett became an evangelical Christian and began wearing his hair very long in the style of Jesus. To avoid the temptation of prostitutes, Corbett castrated himself with a pair of scissors.

He allegedly killed John Wilkes Booth.

After the war Corbett worked as a [mad] hatter in Connecticut and New Jersey. In 1878 he had a complete mental breakdown and lived in a dugout a few miles outside Concordia, Kansas.

Corbett was appointed assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka. On 15th Febuary, 1887, he made an attempt to kill "heretics" in the legislature hall with a revolver. No one was hurt and after being arrested was declared insane and sent to the local asylum.

On 26th May, 1888, Boston Corbett escaped from the Topeka Asylum for the Insane. Except for a brief stay with Richard Thatcher, a man he had met while a prisoner at Andersonville during the Civil War, Corbett was never heard of again.

1,147 posted on 03/22/2004 1:54:32 AM PST by nolu chan
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