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Material Evidence: Dr. Mudd

Dr. Samuel Mudd claimed not to recognize the two men who appeared at his home the morning of April 15, 1865.

Just six hours after shooting President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold arrived at the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd at 4:00 a.m. on April 15, 1865. Mudd used his medical kit to treat Booth’s broken leg and allowed the two men to sleep in his home.

He later told investigators that he did not recognize Booth, although they had met numerous times before. The items below became evidence against Mudd on charges that he was involved in the conspiracy to assassinate the President.

The military tribunal convicted Mudd, sentencing him to life in prison at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, an island 70 miles off the Florida coast. In 1869, President Andrew Johnson pardoned Mudd, in part because of his efforts to halt the spread of an outbreak of deadly yellow fever at the prison.

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Samuel Mudd

American physician implicated in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Mudd worked as a doctor and tobacco farmer in Southern Maryland. The Civil War seriously damaged his business, especially when Maryland abolished slavery in 1864. That year, he first met Booth, who was planning to kidnap Lincoln, and Mudd was seen in company with three of the conspirators. However, his part in the plot, if any, remains unclear.

Booth fatally shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, but was injured during his escape from the scene. He subsequently rode with conspirator David Herold to Mudd's home in the early hours of April 15 for surgery on his fractured leg before he crossed into Virginia. Sometime that day, Mudd must have learned of the assassination but did not report Booth's visit to the authorities for another 24 hours. This fact appeared to link him to the crime, as did his vari

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Samuel Alexander Mudd I was a physician, small-scale tobacco farmer and slave owner who assisted in the escape of John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Historians debate how much Dr. Mudd knew of the plot to kidnap or kill the president and others before the event, but certain facts are indisputable: that Mudd was entirely sympathetic to the Southern cause; that Booth visited his farm some weeks before the event; that Mudd met with Booth and other conspirators multiple times in Washington and they with him at his farm; that he lied about knowing Booth; and that he delayed notifying authorities of Booth's presence in his home until days after Booth's departure.

Despite the circumstantial evidence, no direct testimony of Mudd's prior involvement in the plot emerged during his trial and, though convicted as a conspirator, Mudd escaped the death penalty by a single vote of the Military Commission. After Mudd's trial, conspirator George Atzerodt claimed that Dr. Mudd played an important role in the scheme. "I am certain Dr. Mudd knew all