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What were the political leanings of John Wilkes Booth in 1859 as compared to the rest of his family?

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Unlike the rest of his family, Booth was an ardent Confederate sympathizer. He had joined (1859) the Virginia militia company that assisted in the capture of John Brown, but he did not enter Confederate service in the Civil War.

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