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,...
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...