Download or read book The Fall and Redemption of Dr Samuel A Mudd written by Robert Summers and published by Robert K Summers. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new biography of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, the young Southern Maryland country doctor who provided medical assistance to John Wilkes Booth following Booth's assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. It contains new information never published before on Dr. Mudd's life, including his education at Georgetown College and the University of Maryland medical school, his marriage and family life, his several meetings with John Wilkes Booth, his arrest, trial and conviction, his four-year imprisonment at the Fort Jefferson military prison in the Dry Tortugas of Florida, his failed escape attempt and punishment in the dungeon, his heroic work during a yellow fever epidemic at the prison, his life after being pardoned, and his death as described by his daughter who was at his bedside.
Download or read book Get The Doctor From His Cell written by Robert K Summers and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was convicted with seven others in the 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination trial, and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Fort Jefferson military prison in the Dry Tortugas islands near Florida. He suffered through three and a half years before being pardoned for heroic work during a yellow fever epidemic at the fort.
Download or read book Get the Doctor from His Cell written by Robert K. Summers and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1867. Seventy miles off Key West, and ninety miles from Cuba, the island prison of Fort Jefferson was the most desolate and secure facility in the United States. When an outbreak of yellow fever infected 270 of the 380 people at the fort, the fate of inmates and guards alike was impossibly bleak. Their salvation came from an unlikely place: Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, prisoner 1524, the most famous convict in America. Dr. Mudd had been found guilty of conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. A martyr to Southerners who maintained his innocence, Mudd was sentenced to life at Fort Jefferson, a stark brick garrison in the Gulf of Mexico. After a brutal journey, his days filled with hard labor and yearnings for home, his ultimate salvation came when the yellow fever epidemic hit the fort. Dr. Mudd replaced the prison doctor who had died in the epidemic, and worked ceaselessly to save those who imprisoned him. When the epidemic had run its course, 300 surviving soldiers signed a petition to President Johnson to free Dr. Mudd, which he did. Illuminated with new anecdotes and original documents, many in Mudd's own words, this book tells the astonishing true story of confinement and redemption that has inspired Hollywood films and inflames historians to this day.
Download or read book The Assassin s Doctor written by Robert K. Summers and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Assassin's Doctor is a biography of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, one of the eight persons convicted by a military tribunal in the 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination trial. He was found guilty by a 5-4 vote of the nine military judges. If this had been a civilian trial requiring a unanimous verdict, he would have been freed. The conviction remains controversial today. The Assassin's Doctor tells the story of Dr. Mudd's family, his education, and his life as a Southern Maryland tobacco farmer using slave labor. It tells how he became involved with Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, why he was convicted of conspiring with Booth, how he saved the lives of many people during a yellow fever epidemic at his prison, and his life afterwards. The book also contains several historic photos and the full text of many historic documents about Dr. Mudd's life. You'll love this book because it's the story of the fall and redemption of a man who had lost everything -- his home, family, children, reputation, and freedom -- only to recover everything by risking his life, and almost losing it, to save the lives of those who imprisoned him.
Download or read book The Life of Dr Samuel A Mudd written by Samuel Alexander Mudd and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Dr Samuel A Mudd written by Samuel Alexander Mudd and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Dr Samuel A Mudd written by Samuel Mudd and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Samuel Mudd have prior knowledge of the impending assassination of Abraham Lincoln and willingly provide aid to John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln's murder?Historians are still divided over this issue nearly 140 years later. In 1906, Nettie Mudd published this passionate plea for her father's innocence. It includes testimony from Mudd's trial and letters written to and by him from Fort Jefferson, where he was imprisoned until 1869.Though President Andrew Johnson pardoned Mudd, the family continued to try to get the conviction overturned. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were both sympathetic to the cause but claimed no authority in the matter. The Supreme Court has refused to hear the case.Not only is this book a well-reasoned case for Mudd's acquittal, it's a fascinating look into the Mudd family and the early attempts to clear his name. The letters from Mudd to his adored wife are very revealing of at least a part of Mudd's character.
Download or read book The Union Vs Dr Mudd written by Hal Higdon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 150 years, one question remains unanswered in the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln: was Samuel A. Mudd, the physician who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth, guilty or innocent of participating in the conspiracy to murder the president? Featuring a new introduction and epilogue, this well-researched and unbiased account of Mudd's testimony, trial, and imprisonment remains the gold standard on the topic more than forty years after it was first published. So, did Dr. Mudd merely answer the call of duty when an injured man appeared on his doorstep, or was he a wily co-conspirator who avoided the death penalty? Hal Higdon takes an objective stance and allows the reader to decide.
Download or read book His Name Is Still Mudd written by Edward Steers Jr and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the evidence against Dr. Samuel A. Mudd identifying him as a key conspirator of John Wilkes Booth in his plot to capture President Lincoln, and subsequently aid in his escape from authorities.
Download or read book The Life of Dr Samuel A Mudd written by Nettie Mudd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Mudd was one of eight persons convicted of conspiracy in the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Four of those convicted were immediately executed. The other four, including Dr. Mudd, were sent to the Fort Jefferson military prison in the Dry Tortugas islands. These islands lie about 70 miles west of Key West Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. Havana, Cuba lies about 90 miles south of the prison. Fort Jefferson was the most remote and desolate military prison in the United States. The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was written by his daughter Nettie Mudd in 1906, forty-one years after the assassination. Her purpose in writing it was to vindicate the name of her father. The book remains a classic reference in the larger story of the Lincoln assassination. While the book covers Dr. Mudd's entire life, readers will probably find the most fascinating part to be the letters exchanged between Dr. Mudd, his wife, relatives, and friends during his 44 months of imprisonment. He received a life sentence, but was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1869. The pardon was based in part on Dr. Mudd's heroic work during a yellow fever epidemic at the prison in 1867. When the epidemic had run its course, 300 surviving soldiers signed a petition to President Johnson to free Dr. Mudd. After being pardoned, Dr. Mudd returned home to resume the life of a physician and farmer. He passed away fourteen years later at the young age of 49.
Download or read book The Life of Dr Samuel A Mudd written by Samuel Alexander Mudd and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Million Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a President written by Christopher McIlwain and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington Gayle is not a name known to history. But it soon will be. Forget what you thought you knew about why Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. No, it was not mere sectional hatred, Booth’s desire to become famous, Lincoln’s advocacy of black suffrage, or a plot masterminded by Jefferson Davis to win the war by crippling the Federal government. Christopher Lyle McIlwain, Sr.’s Untried and Unpunished: George Washington Gayle and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln exposes the fallacies regarding each of those theories and reveals both the mastermind behind the plot, and its true motivation. The deadly scheme to kill Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward was Gayle’s brainchild. The assassins were motivated by money Gayle raised. Lots of money. $20,000,000 in today’s value. Gayle, a prominent South Carolina-born Alabama lawyer, had been a Unionist and Jacksonian Democrat before walking the road of radicalization following the admission of California as a free state in 1850. Thereafter, he became Alabama’s most earnest secessionist, though he would never hold any position within the Confederate government or serve in its military. After the slaying of the president Gayle was arrested and taken to Washington, DC in chains to be tried by a military tribunal for conspiracy in connection with the horrendous crimes. The Northern press was satisfied Gayle was behind the deed—especially when it was discovered he had placed an advertisement in a newspaper the previous December soliciting donations to pay the assassins. There is little doubt that if Gayle had been tried, he would have been convicted and executed. However, he not only avoided trial, but ultimately escaped punishment of any kind for reasons that will surprise readers. Rather than rehashing what scores of books have already alleged, Untried and Unpunished offers a completely fresh premise, meticulous analysis, and stunning conclusions based upon years of firsthand research by an experienced attorney. This original, thought-provoking study will forever change the way you think of Lincoln’s assassination.
Download or read book The Life of Dr Samuel A Mudd written by Samuel Alexander Mudd and published by . This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Dr Samuel A Mudd Containing His Letters From Fort Jefferson Dry Tortugas Island Where He Was Imprisoned Four Years for Alleged Complicity in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln With Statements of Mrs Samuel A Mudd Dr Samuel A written by Samuel Alexander 1833-1883 Mudd and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Dr Samuel Mudd at Fort Jefferson written by Robert Summers and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private James Forsythe, 5th U.S. Artillery, was the first to die. Private Joseph Enits died next, on August 30th. The yellow fever spread to Company L and to the officers' servants. Company I, housed in the barracks adjoining the hospital, was then attacked. Company M escaped the plague until September 7th when 30 men were stricken. The fort's doctor, Joseph Sim Smith, contracted the disease on September 5th. This was all happening at Fort Jefferson, a military fortress located on an island in the Gulf of Mexico, about 70 miles west of Key West, Florida, and 90 miles north of Havana, Cuba. Three-hundred thirteen soldiers, 54 prisoners, and 20 civilians, a total of 387 people, were at the fort. Two-hundred seventy of them contracted yellow fever. Thirty-eight died. Four of the 54 prisoners were men who had been convicted of conspiracy in the 1865 Lincoln assassination trial. They were Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlen, Edman Spangler, and Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. When Dr. Smith fell ill, the fort's commander, Major Valentine Stone, sent an emissary to Key West to ask Dr. Daniel Whitehurst to come help. Whitehurst had once been a civilian contract doctor at the fort. Stone knew he would come, but he needed help right away. He went to see Dr. Mudd. Would he help until Dr. Whitehurst arrived? Dr. Mudd said "Yes," and went to work.Dr. Whitehurst arrived the next day. For the next three weeks, he and Dr. Mudd together worked day and night to treat those afflicted with the disease. On October 1st, Dr. Whitehurst was relieved by Dr. Edward Thomas, a civilian contract doctor from New York. Dr. Mudd himself contracted the disease on October 4th, but survived.Many people's lives had been saved by Drs. Mudd and Whitehurst. Three hundred grateful soldiers signed a petition to President Andrew Johnson asking him to pardon Dr. Mudd. It said in part:"He inspired the hopeless with courage, and by his constant presence in the midst of danger and infection, regardless of his own life, tranquilized the fearful and desponding."Johnson ignored the petition, but did eventually pardon Dr. Mudd in February 1869 just before his presidential term expired.This book tells the story of Dr. Mudd's involvement in the Lincoln assassination saga, his imprisonment at Fort Jefferson, his life-saving work during the horrific 1867 yellow fever epidemic, and his life after returning home. It is a story of the redemption of a man who had lost everything -- his home, family, children, reputation, and freedom -- only to recover everything by risking his life, and almost losing it, to save the lives of those who imprisoned him.
Download or read book The Life of Dr Samuel A Mudd written by Samuel Alexander Mudd and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Dr Samuel A Mudd written by Samuel Alexander Mudd and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
