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Reference Library


Documents:


10/17/1852: Sam Mudd's Expulsion from Georgetown College

3/5/1856: Dr. Samuel Mudd's Medical Graduation Thesis

1/13/1862: Dr. Samuel Mudd's Letter to Orestes A. Brownson

4/22/1865: Dr. Mudd's Statement to Colonel Wells

4/23/1865: Colonel William P. Wood's Reports

4/-/1865: Oscar Swan's Statement

4/27/1865: David Herold's Statement

5/1/1865: George Atzerodt's Statement

5/16/1865: Testimony of Lt. Lovett and Others

6/8/1865: Testimony of John Hardy

6/8/1865: Testimony of Francis Farrell

6/__/1865: Argument of General Ewing on Behalf of Dr. Mudd

6/16/1865: Mrs. Mudd's 1st Affidavit

7/6/1865: Mrs. Mudd's 2nd Affidavit

7/10/1865: General Ewing's Appeal to President Johnson

7/27/1865: Paymaster Keeler's 1st Letter

April - July, 1865: General Hartranft Papers.

8/3/1865: Washington Star Article on Trip to Fort Jefferson

8/22/1865: The Dutton Report and Dr. Mudd's Rebuttal

9/1/1865: Captain W.R. Prentice Letter to General E.D. Townsend

9/4/1865: Mrs. Mudd's Letter to Judge Joseph Holt

9/16/1865: Report from Lt. Carpenter to General Townsend

9/30/1865: Dr. Mudd's Description of His Attempted Escape

12/22/1865: Mrs. Mudd's Letter to President Johnson

8/26/1867: Too Hot for Base Ball

9/4/1867: Letter from Major J. Sim Smith

10/31/1867: How Dr. Mudd Treated Yellow Fever

12/3/1867: The Butler Commission

12/14/1867: Official Army Report on the Yellow Fever Epidemic

12/25/1867: Dr. Mudd's Letter to Dr. Whitehurst

12/31/1867: Dr. Whitehurst's Letter to Dr. Crane

2/29/1868: Major Andrew's Letter to Dr. Mudd

4/13/1868: Lizzie Smith's Letter to President Johnson

1/21/1869: Paymaster William Keeler's 2nd Letter

2/8/1869: Dr. Samuel A. Mudd's Pardon

4/19/1869: Letter from Dr. Mudd to Dr. Whitehurst

6/24/1869: Edman Spangler's Account of Life at Fort Jefferson

6/25/1873: Dr. Mudd Writes about Epidemics & Infection

2/25/1878: Bill for the Relief of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

3/10/1883: Dr. Samuel A. Mudd's Guide to Health

6/17/1883: Townsend's Interview of Frederick Stone

1888: John T. Ford's Statement about Mrs. Surratt

4/18/1892: Cincinnati Enquirer Article About Dr. Mudd

4/18/1892: Henry L. Burnett Lecture on the Lincoln Assassination

8/7/1893: Dr. Mudd and Samuel Cox, Jr.

1/18/1902: Samuel Arnold's Account of the Epidemic

2/11/1909: Mrs. Samuel Mudd's Last Interview

2/5/1934: Letter from Thomas Ewing III to David Rankin Barbee

Profiles:

Nettie Mudd

August Kautz

Maria Spencer Hurbert

Thomas O. Dyer

Lettie Hall Dade

The Ships of Dr. Mudd

Books:

The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, by Nettie Mudd

The Mudd Family of the United States, by Dr. Richard D. Mudd

The Assassination of President Lincoln, and the Trial of the Conspirators, by Benn Pitman

American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies, by Michael W. Kauffman

In the Footsteps of an Assassin, by Michael W. Kauffman

Memoirs of a Lincoln Conspirator, by Michael W. Kauffman
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by Osborn H. Oldroyd

Lincoln's Assassins, by Roy Z. Chamlee, Jr.

J. Wilkes Booth: an Account of his Sojourn in Southern Maryland after the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, His Passage Across the Potomac, and his Death in Virginia, by Thomas A. Jones

Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President, by Benjamin Perley Poore

The Trial of the Assassins and Conspirators, by T.B. Peterson & Brothers

Links:

Lincoln Assassination Papers, U.S. National Archives, at fold3.com

Lincoln Assassination Trial Transcripts

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Farm House Museum

Lincoln Assassination web site, by Roger Norton

The Lincoln Discussion Symposium, by Roger Norton

BoothieBarn Blog, by David Taylor