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"Letter from D. W. Whitehurst, MD to Major G. P. Andrews in regards to the conduct of Dr. Samuel Mudd during the yellow fever outbreak at Fort Jefferson," 2/24/1868
File Unit: B-596, Samuel A. Mudd, 1865 - 1931. Series: Pardon Case Files, 1853 - 1946. Record Group 204: Records of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, 1846 - 1989.
Happy Mudd Day!
“Dear Sir, It is with regret I am forced again to intrude on your valuable time. I know you have but little to devote to individuals. After long weary weeks watching and waiting I have just received a letter from my husband, Doctor Mudd, he says he is very weak and nervous and general health yielding to long and close confinement and improper food. The chains were taken off in December. Since the he has been kept under close guard…”
Letter from S. F. Mudd to President Andrew Johnson, 6/28/1866
File Unit: B-596, Samuel A. Mudd, 1865 - 1931. Series: Pardon Case Files, 1853 - 1946. Record Group 204: Records of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, 1846 - 1989
In this letter to President Andrew Johnson, Sarah F. Mudd, wife of Dr. Samuel Mudd, pleads for clemency for her husband and reports on his living conditions while he is imprisoned.
The day after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd set the leg of President Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth, allowing Booth and his accomplice David Herold to sleep at his house on April 15, 1865. Dr. Mudd was convicted of conspiring to help Booth escape because he did not alert the authorities to Booth’s presence at his farm. He was given a life sentence, but was eventually pardoned by President Andrew Johnson on February 8, 1869 following his efforts during a yellow fever epidemic at Fort Jefferson where he was imprisoned.
See Mudd’s application for a pardon from January of 1866, and also Sarah Mudd’s affidavit, testifying that she saw Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth in the fall of 1864 and again on April 15, 1865.
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During the first few weeks of summer,I had made a trip to Doctor Mudds house. In Southern Maryland there is a lot of haunted attractions ,but never had I felt the way I did at the Mudd house. When I went on the tour of his house, I felt like I was being watched. I did not share anything with anyone until I realized the staff and visitors have been having experiences to. People have caught apparitions on camera and some have seen them. One if the tour guides claims he sees Dr. Mudds wife. They also have an album of photos that visitors have taken with orbs and such in them. If you are interested in paranormal happenings, check out the Mudd house and other places in Southern Maryland.
"dr. mudd", from john cale's live album sabotage. had no idea he played garage rock, really into this
