Excerpt from Wilkes Booth's Private Confession of the Murder of President Lincoln: And His Terrible Oath of Vengeance; Furnished by an Escaped Confederate After a brief but brilliant career in England he went over to America, where he settled. The young man who, by an act of singular daring and atrocity, has left behind him so unenviable a notoriety, was the third son of J unius Brutus Booth; he was born in Maryland, near to the city of Baltimore, in the year 1838. At the time of his birth his father was in the occupa tion of a farm; he named his third son after John Wilkes, the great English politician who lived in the reign of George the Third, and from whom the saying Wilkes and liberty originated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.