It most difinitely would be, Sidekick.
"Booth, John Wilkes (1839-1865)
"Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country. . . . useless . . . useless . . ."
After John Wilkes Booth fired a fatal shot into the back of President Lincoln's head, he jumped from the box to the stage of Ford's Theater in Washington shouting "Sic Semper Tyrannis," the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As he leapt, his boot caught in some bunting causing him to break his left leg upon landing. He fled the city with a co-conspirator, David Herold, and eventually ended up trapped by soldiers while hiding in a barn at Richard Garnet's farm in Virginia. Herold gave himself up when called upon to surrender, but Booth yelled back, "Captain, this is a hard case, I swear. Give a lame man a chance. Draw up your men twenty yards from the door, and I will fight your whole command." When his offer was refused, he shouted, "Well, my brave boys, you can prepare a stretcher for me." The soldiers then set fire to the barn in an attempt to drive Booth from it as their orders were to capture him alive. Booth began to shout, "Kill me! Kill me!" In the confusion, at least one soldier shot into the barn. Booth collapsed, struck in the neck by a round. He was dragged from the flames and onto the porch of Garnet's house where he died mumbling."