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Dr. Samuel Mudd House, known as St. Catharine, now preserved as a museum. As a wedding present, Mudd's father gave the couple 218 acres (88 ha) of his best farmland and a new house named St. Catharine. While the house was under construction, the Mudds lived with Frankie's bachelor brother, Jeremiah Dyer, finally moving into their new home in 1859.
His book His Name Is Still Mudd presents the case for Dr. Samuel Mudd's complicity with John Wilkes Booth's plot to capture President Lincoln ultimately leading to his assassination. Among his honors, Steers was elected to American Men and Women of Science, and as a Fellow in the Company of Military Historians.
A few hours after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.), Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter) gives treatment to a man with a broken leg who shows up at his door. In the movie, Mudd does not know that the president has been assassinated, and also does not know the man he is treating is Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes ...
For Lovie Simone, who plays Mary Simms, a formerly enslaved woman who ends up testifying against her enslaver Dr. Samuel Mudd (played by Matt Walsh) at the trial of Lincoln's conspirators ...
Matt Walsh, best known for a very different political series in “Veep,” plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, who fixed Booth’s broken leg after the shooting. (It’s largely forgotten that Mudd, who had ...
Wells had interrogated Dr. Samuel Mudd, which had led to the crucial tip. He was also associated with the proceedings before Judge Underwood in which the captured Jefferson Davis was charged with treason (although that prosecution was later quashed). Wells received a promotion to brevet brigadier general in May 1865.
The two men ended up in Maryland, at the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd. And after Lincoln's death, it was, in fact, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton who was put on Booth's trail—exactly as the show depicts.
The only hard record that exists for the number of slaves held by Dr. Mudd is the U.S. 1860 Slave Census, which lists 5 slaves for Dr. Mudd. Also deleted the reference to Dr. Mudd during the trial repeatedly denying recognizing Booth. Dr. Mudd did not testify at the trial, nor did any of the other defendants.