Samuel Mudd
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Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. was an American physician who was accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
Samuel Mudd
Dr. Samuel Mudd House, known as St. Catharine, now preserved as a museum
Trial of the conspirators; Mudd is second from the left in the back row
Prison where Mudd was held
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., one month into his second term and towards the conclusion of the American C
Samuel Mudd
…Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Mudd worked as a doctor and tobacco farmer in Southern Maryland. The Civil War seriously damaged his business, especially when Maryland abolished…
John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre
A Carte de visite of the actor John Wilkes Booth, c. 1865
The Surratt boarding house, where the conspirators planned
Ford's Theatre