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Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth, saved Abraham Lincoln's son from serious injury or death on a train platform in 1864 or 1865. Can anyone tell me anything more about this incident? Did the two ever exchange words after Lincoln's assassination?

by /u/chikindiner in /r/AskHistorians

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