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The Assassin's Doctor
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.
The Assassin's Doctor
The Assassin's Doctor is the story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, one of the eight persons convicted in the 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination trial. The book could just as easily have been entitled The Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Encyclopedia. It is a large 730-page book, and contains just about everything there is to know about Dr. Mudd. The Assassin's Doctor covers Dr. Mudd's life as a doctor/farmer/slave-owner before the assassination, his involvement with John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln assassination, the assassination trial, his incarceration in the Fort Jackson military prison after the trial, his heroic work during the terrible 1867 yellow fever epidemic at Fort Jefferson, and his life after being ...
The Doctor's Slaves
All of the historical accounts of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd's life focus on his conviction as one of the eight persons tried for conspiracy in the 1865 assassination of president Abraham Lincoln. But Dr. Mudd was also a farmer who relied on slave labor to plant and harvest his tobacco crops. This book is the story of the lives of those men and women. Dr. and Mrs. Mudd acquired at least nine slaves between 1859 and 1864. Their first five slaves were documented in the 1860 Federal Slave Census. They were a 26-year-old man, a 19-year-old girl, a 10-year-old boy, an 8-year-old girl, and a 6-year-old girl. The 26-year-old man was Elzee Eglent. The 19-year-old woman was his sister, Mary Simms. The 14-yea...
Maryland's Black Civil War Soldiers
Always in need of more men, the Union Army began enlisting African Americans about half way through the 1861-65 Civil War. Most were runaway slaves, but there were also a number of free black men, some who had been drafted, and some who had been paid to substitute for someone else, a controversial practice allowed during the war. The new African American units were designated the U. S.Colored Troops, consisting of 120 Infantry Regiments, 12 Heavy Artillery Regiments, 10 Heavy Artillery Batteries, and 7 Cavalry Regiments. This book profiles the 1,151 soldiers in one of the infantry regiments, Maryland's 19th Regiment. The information is taken from the soldiers' military service and pension re...
Get The Doctor From His Cell
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.
Dr. Samuel Mudd at Fort Jefferson
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 for...
Habeas Corpus in Wartime
This book is the most comprehensive account of the role of habeas corpus in wartime ever written. It draws on a wealth of untapped resources to shed light on the political and legal understanding of habeas corpus that has unfolded over the course of Anglo-American history. The book traces the roots of the habeas privilege enshrined in the United States Constitution to England and then carries the story forward to document the profound influence of English law on early American law. It then takes the story forward to document the understanding of the privilege and the role of suspension over the course of American history.
