His prevarications were painful. The board did not consider innocence or guilt but only whether the military commission that tried Mudd had legal jurisdiction to do so. He was well-connected throughout the area and knew virtually all the Confederate operatives working between Washington and Richmond. Clement L. Vallandigham Court-Martial: The facts that have emerged about his involvement with Booth belie the popular image of Mudd as a gentle country doctor who unexpectedly became entangled in a tragic murder through no fault of his own. During questioning by one of Mudd’s attorneys, Thompson was asked if he had seen Booth again after the meeting where he had introduced Booth to Mudd in November. These believers in Mudd's innocence kept his cause alive.

One of his fellow conspirators, Michael O'Laughlin, was less fortunate and died from the disease. His help would later prove invaluable when Booth and Herold made their escape south from Washington, D.C., after crossing the Potomac River into Virginia.

This behavior led Wells to place Mudd under arrest and send him to Washington under guard. While Mudd claimed that Booth stayed overnight at his house and purchased a horse from his neighbor, George Gardiner, during the November meeting, several pieces of evidence show that those incidents occurred during Booth’s December visit, not in November. When Booth came to Mudd’s house in the early morning of April 15, 1865, seeking medical aid, it was the fourth time that the two men had met, and none of the four meetings had been accidental.

He continued, I have never seen Booth since that time to my knowledge until last Saturday night.”. Defendant: Clement L. Vallandigham Bunker was a clerk at the National Hotel, where Booth stayed when in Washington. As to who was responsible for Booth and David Herold’s visit to Mudd’s house in the early morning hours of April 15, it was Mudd himself. Great American Trials. It was in his affidavit that Mudd inadvertently let slip that yet another meeting involving Booth and himself had occurred in mid-December, immediately before the meeting in Washington. In the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter wrote Mudd's descendants to express his belief in Mudd's innocence and effectively extended Johnson's pardon to cover any implication that Mudd had been involved in Booth's conspiracy. Dr. William H. Dobelle, biomedical researcher who developed technology that restored limited sight to blind patients. Ronald and Reginald Kray, gangsters whose gang, The Firm, was the most infamous organized crime group in London's East End in the 1950s and '60s.

Mudd’s statement that Booth spent the night at his house after their introduction in November 1864 and that he purchased a horse the next morning is not true. Although the North resounded with triumph, Southerners and their sympathizers were bitter and resentful. Refer to each style’s convention regarding the best way to format page numbers and retrieval dates. Both were Confederate agents, highly competent, trusted and well-connected throughout the Confederate underground route between Washington and Richmond. He was the son of Henry Lowe Mudd and his wife, Sarah Ann Reeves. Louis Weichmann, the government’s key witness, told of an earlier meeting involving Mudd and Booth in Washington, D.C., at which Weichmann was present. Bunker noted that Booth had checked out of the National Hotel on Friday, November 11, 1864, and had returned on Monday, November 14. This showed that Harbin’s involvement in the plot was not superficial but serious. After his conviction Mudd and co-conspirators Michael O'Laughlin, Samuel Arnold, and Edman Spangler were transported to Fort Jefferson, where the men were scheduled to serve out their prison sentences.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/law-magazines/dr-samuel-mudd-trial-1865, "Dr. Samuel Mudd Trial: 1865 Subsequently, Samuel Cox, Jr., who was present the night Booth and Herold arrived at his step-father’s home, made several notations in his personal copy of Jones’ book. Those advocating Mudd’s innocence must explain his pattern of lying. We went by way of Surrattsville to the house of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, which is about thirty miles from Washington. In his revealing statement, Mudd confirmed a second visit to Charles County by Booth just prior to the December 23 meeting at the National Hotel—a trip that, by Mudd’s own admission, included a visit to his property. Bunker prepared an abstract of the hotel ledger for the trial prosecutors in the form of a memorandum, in which he listed Booth’s comings and goings from the hotel during late 1864 and 1865. Moss Hart, American playwright who, with George S. Kaufman, wrote plays such as You Can't Take it with You and The Man who came to Dinner. He had once lived a few miles south of the Mudd farm and had served as postmaster at Bryantown before the war. We (Mudd and Booth) started down one street, and then up another, and had not gone far when we met Surratt and Weichmann. A Cabinet member recalls the day President Lincoln died He had denied knowing Booth when he knew him well. One day short of his fifty-second birthday, Abraham Lincoln, pres…, Clement L. Vallandigham Court-Martial: 1863 Afterward he said he had been down in Charles County, and had made me an offer to purchase of my land, which I confirmed by an affirmative answer; and he further remarked that on his way up (to Washington) he lost his way and rode several miles off the track. Powell used the horse the night of the assassination. He also secured letters of introduction from Martin to Mudd and Queen.).