Dr. Samuel A. Mudd at Fort Jefferson

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was one of the eight persons convicted of conspiracy in the 1865 Lincoln assassination trial. The four who had participated in the actual assassination were executed by hanging. Dr. Mudd and the other three were found guilty of otherwise conspiring with the assassin John Wilkes Booth, and sent to the Fort Jefferson military prison, located on a remote island in the Gulf of Mexic...