Jwb Father

“Tell Mother …I Died For My Country” (JWB). JWB born May 10, 1838, near Bel Air, Maryland. He had 9 other siblings and he was the second youngest of the bunch. His father was known to be an actor, but grew a big reputation as a heavy drinker. JWB grew up on a farm with his siblings which were worked by the family's slaves. When JWB was young he attended a boarding school called Milton Boarding School.If you asked others about JWB they would say he was very handsome. Those who knew him only thought he was destined to follow in his father's footsteps,well most things.When JWB turned 17 he started his acting career and starred in Shakespeare’s “Richard the Third”. Soon after his first performance he seemed to wow a theater company and got recruited to tour with them.
As soon as JWB was better he got right back into it in fact he became so renowned that just days prior to his gettysburg speech the President Abraham Lincoln attended JWB’s performance of “The Marble Heart” at Ford’s Theater.After his outstanding career as an actor JWB settled down and joined Know-Nothing Party, which it purpose was to limit immigration into the United States. JWB had very strong beliefs in slavery growing up in a pro-slavery family those passed onto him. JWB soon joined a Virginia Militia that aided the capture of John Brown. JWB eventually became a secret agent for the confederacy. JWB had so much time after his theater career that he was involved in a plan to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. JWB’s “Master Plan” consisted that Lincoln would come to Richmond to make a deal, but JWB’s plan failed when the President didn't show up in the end. This made JWB very angry, so JWB took it to a new extreme. JWB went to a play not to act, not to watch, but to