Mudd, Samuel Alexander

Mudd, Samuel Alexander,

1833–83, Maryland physician and Confederate sympathizer who on April 15, 1865, set the broken left leg of Lincoln's fleeing assassin, John Wilkes BoothBooth, John Wilkes
, 1838–65, American actor, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, b. near Bel Air, Md.; son of Junius Brutus Booth and brother of Edwin Booth. He made his stage debut at the age of 17 in Baltimore.
..... Click the link for more information. . Mudd was accused of aiding Booth's escape and was tried along with Booth's accomplices (see Surratt, Mary EugeniaSurratt, Mary Eugenia
, 1820–65, alleged conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, hanged on July 7, 1865. A widow (her maiden name was Jenkins) who had moved from Surrattsville (now Clinton), Md., to Washington, D.C.
..... Click the link for more information. ). He maintained that he did not recognized the disguised Booth, who was an acquaintance, and did not know of Lincoln's assassination, but was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, Fla. It remains unclear what Mudd might have known about the assassination. Since Edward Spangler, the sceneshifter at Ford's Theater convicted of abetting Booth's escape, received a six-year sentence, many regarded Mudd's sentence as unjust. In 1869 he was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, who cited doubts about Mudd's guilt as well as his efforts during a yellow fever outbreak at the prison.

Bibliography

See The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd (ed. by his daughter, N. Mudd, 1906).

单词	mudd, samuel alexander
释义	Mudd, Samuel Alexander Mudd, Samuel Alexander, 1833–83, Maryland physician and Confederate sympathizer who on April 15, 1865, set the broken left leg of Lincoln's fleeing assassin, John Wilkes BoothBooth, John Wilkes , 1838–65, American actor, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, b. near Bel Air, Md.; son of Junius Brutus Booth and brother of Edwin Booth. He made his stage debut at the age of 17 in Baltimore. ..... Click the link for more information. . Mudd was accused of aiding Booth's escape and was tried along with Booth's accomplices (see Surratt, Mary EugeniaSurratt, Mary Eugenia , 1820–65, alleged conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, hanged on July 7, 1865. A widow (her maiden name was Jenkins) who had moved from Surrattsville (now Clinton), Md., to Washington, D.C. ..... Click the link for more information. ). He maintained that he did not recognized the disguised Booth, who was an acquaintance, and did not know of Lincoln's assassination, but was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, Fla. It remains unclear what Mudd might have known about the assassination. Since Edward Spangler, the sceneshifter at Ford's Theater convicted of abetting Booth's escape, received a six-year sentence, many regarded Mudd's sentence as unjust. In 1869 he was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, who cited doubts about Mudd's guilt as well as his efforts during a yellow fever outbreak at the prison. Bibliography See The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd (ed. by his daughter, N. Mudd, 1906).
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