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John Wilkes Booth was in a barn house in Port Royal, Virginia in 1865 he died there his last words "Tell my mother I died for my country"
Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.
In Booth's dying moments, he reportedly whispered, "Tell my mother I died for my country". Asking that his hands be raised to his face so he could see them, Booth uttered his last words, "Useless, useless," and died as dawn was breaking.
His father was Junius Brutus Booth, an English actor who emigrated to the United States. His older brother, Edmund, grew up to the leading actor of the last half of the 19th Century.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln April 14, 1865, friday, and Lincoln died on April 15.