Thomas “Boston” Corbett, the English-born Union Army soldier who killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin: John Wilkes Booth

Apparently the guy was also a religious fanatic who castrated himself with a pare of scissors after being aroused by some prostitutes. When asked why he had killed John Wilkes Booth, despite being under orders to take him alive, he simply said: “Providence directed me”. During the war, he served five months in the notorious prisoner of war camp at Andersonville, Georgia.