Samuel Mudd
Books
- Where Is Booth? The Twelve-Day Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth · Liszt Think
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theatre into the Maryland night. What followed were twelve days of desperate evasion and relentless pursuit across the Potomac tidewater.
- The City of Oil Lamps…in the flight through Maryland. Herold knew the country south of the city, had hunted there, could navigate the roads that ran through Dr. Samuel Mudd’s neighborhood toward the Potomac crossing. The plan was to shoot Lincoln in his theater box, to leap to the stage (a drop of some twelve f…
- The Scream Before the Shot…snapping at the fibula, or perhaps the tibia fracturing under the strain. Later he would write that he had broken his leg. Later still, Dr. Samuel Mudd, a Maryland physician and tobacco farmer, would set it. But in this moment Booth did not fall. He caught himself, straightened, and stood f…
- The Sergeant at the Navy Yard Bridge…y have reflected the paralysis of a man suddenly comprehending the magnitude of his commitment. Herold would accompany Booth to the home of Samuel Mudd, would share the pine thicket days, would surrender finally at the Garrett farm when the tobacco barn burned around them. His presence on t…