The life of Samuel A. Mudd, M.D., bears out this assumption. Because he was a physician, he was drawn afield as a co-conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The same ...

On the remote Dry Tortugas, Dr. Samuel Mudd was imprisoned for the crime of aiding Lincoln’s assassin. Stephen Budiansky’s new book on the Civil War’s most catastrophically bloody day, ...

This is the story of the doctor whose farm John Wilkes Booth went to after assassinating Abraham Lincoln. Eventually he was wrongfully accused and tried and convicted as a member of the conspiracy ...