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8 The description of Booth’s group of conspirators as an action team was first used by James O. Hall in Come Retribution. See William A. Tidwell, James O. Hall and David Winfred Gaddy, Come Retribution (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1988), 328 (hereinafter cited as Retribution). Subscribe Today
9 The statement by George A. Atzerodt made to Provost Marshal James McPhail, on May 1, 1865, was discovered in 1977 by Joan L. Chaconas among the personal papers of William E. Doster, defense counsel for Atzerodt. These papers were in the possession of a descendant of William Doster. Complete text of the statement is published in Surratt Courier, October 13, 1988, 2-3 (hereinafter cited as Lost Confession).
10 Mudd was taking Booth to meet Surratt at Mary Surratt’s boarding house when they encountered Surratt and Weichmann coming from the house down Seventh Street toward Pennsylvania Avenue.
11 Affidavit of George W. Dutton in Benn Pitmann, The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators, ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (1865; reprint, New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1954), 421 (hereinafter cited as Pitmann).
12 Affidavit of Samuel A. Mudd in Nettie Mudd, The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd (1906; reprint, LaPlata: Dick Wildes Printing, 1983), 42-48.
13 Perley Poore, ed., The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President, and the Attempt to Overthrow the Government by the Assassination of its Principal Officers, vol. 2 (1865; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1972), 271-272 (hereinafter cited as Poore).
14 Booth rode the horse back to Washington and gave him to Louis Powell (a.k.a., Payne). Powell used the horse the night of the assassination. The horse was recovered by the military in Washington the night of April 14-15 and taken to twenty-second Army Headquarters.
15 John Rhodenhamel and Louise Taper, Right or Wrong, God Judge Me (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997), 123.
16 Poore, vol. 1, 29-32.
17 James O. Hall, in Come Retribution, concluded that Booth had left for Bryantown on December 20, and not the 17th. Hall based his conclusion on a check cashed by Booth at Jay Cooke’s Washington bank on December 20. The check was actually written on December 16, 1864, and cleared the bank on December 20. The trial testimony of John F. Hardy places Booth in Charles County on Sunday, December 18 and Monday, December 19, as does the testimony of Thomas Gardiner. See Gardiner’s testimony in Poore, vol. 1, 361- 365, and Poore, vol. 3, 431-437. Hall has reconstructed the Booth visit as occurring from Saturday, December 17 through Thursday, December 22. James O. Hall, personal communication with author.
18 Poore, vol. 3, 435-436.
19 Interview of Thomas Harbin by George Alfred Townsend, Cincinnati Enquirer, April 18, 1892 (hereinafter cited as Harbin Interview).
20 Harbin served as Postmaster at Bryantown in 1856-1857. He lived a short distance to the southwest of the small village.
21 Harbin Interview.
22 The Surratt Tavern in Surrattsville, Maryland (present-day Clinton, Maryland) was identified by name as a Confederate safe house in Confederate documents. See David W. Gaddy, The Surratt Tavern – A Confederate ‘Safe House’? in In Pursuit of…Continuing Research in the Field of the Lincoln Assassination (Clinton: Surratt Society, 1990), 129.
23 Statements, 67. According to a confession published in the Baltimore American newspaper on January 19, 1869, Atzerodt stated that Harbin and Surratt came for him in the winter of 1864-1865. An article published in the American and Commercial Advertiser (Baltimore) on July 10, 1865, three days after the hanging told of an interview with Atzerodt in which Atzerodt admitted that John H. Surratt and …a man named Harlow… visited Atzerodt in Port Tobacco and convinced him to join in Booth’s conspiracy. Atzerodt’s German accent led to Harbin being transcribed as Harlow, Holborn, or Harborn on different occasions. Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Help HistoryNet by bookmarking to
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5 Comments to “Dr. Samuel A. Mudd”
I met Mudd’s grandson, 20 years or so ago. He invited me to his house in Saginaw, Mi. He had me convinced. But after more reading and research, I have probably come to the conclusion that Mudd did know Booth. He did realize soon on that it was Booth whose leg he was fixing. And I think that he probably told Mudd that he had just shot Lincoln. I’m still not convinced that he had anything to do with the assassination or kidnappng beyond that. Getting life in prison (although pardoned by Johnson) seemed a bit harsh. I think 10 years would have covered it.
By Randy on Jun 19, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Mudd was guity then and he is guity now,his name is mudd for a reason.
By katie kennedy on Jan 17, 2009 at 11:21 pm
I am trying to rember to famous actor ….female…..that was performing at Ford Theatre the night Booth assisinated President Lincoln. Does anyone know? Thank you,
By Barbara Renfrow on Mar 18, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Barbara,
It was Laura Keene, playing in the 1000th performance of Our American Cousin.
Regards,
Archie
By A. MacLean on Jun 2, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Unfortunately, based, no doubt, on John Ford’s treatment of Mudd in his 1936 film, The Prisoner of Shark Island, the modern view of Mudd’s complicity in the Lincoln assassination has been blurred considerably. In tfiis work, written for the screen by Nunally Johnson, a Georgian, Mudd is seen as simply a doctor who helps strangers who come to his door late at night. Not only did he not know Booth, acording to the film,he did not recognize him when he came to his house then. The film further resurrects all sorts of racist themes, like the carpetbagger myth, the good slave owner (Mudd!), the hapless slaves, Northern brutality (a Northern soldier breaking the doll of Mudd’s daughter in front f the girl (!), etc. None of the facts of Mudd’s complicity, or the trial transcript with incriminating evidence are presented. In fact, Ford intentionally misrepresents history by suggesting that there was no evidence whatsoever of Mudd’s guilt when the reverse is true. He bases the movie entirely on the self serving fabrication of Mudd’s daughter, who penned a tribute to her father.
By cliff meneken on Jun 30, 2009 at 1:14 pm