After this, my name is Mudd
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The next time a man with short arms and a broken leg shows up at your door, tell him to keep riding.
http://www.amazon.com/His-Name-Still-Mudd-Alexander/dp/1577470192
From the blurb:
Arguing forcefully and with the weight of great evidence, Dr. Edward Steers proves how mistaken modern efforts to exonerate Mudd are. Mudd knew Booth well; he had entertained him as an overnight guest just months prior to the assassination. Mudd even plotted with Booth to capture Lincoln, and introduced Booth to key conspirators.
The claim that a man who knew Booth well, had been part of an earlier conspiracy against Lincoln, let a supposed "stranger" into his house in the middle of the night and got close enough to him to treat his injuries sustained earlier in the murder of the President failed to recognize him because of a theatrical disguise is as preposterous a fiction as the the idea that a squad of terrorists armed with mortars and RPG's showed up at the US mission as a spontaneous response to a YouTube video to murder the US Ambassador to Libya.
Mudd was guilty as hell, and his descendants should give it up. They're a laughingstock.
Yet the Doctor that treated Lincoln also treated Garfield. Had he not treated Garfield, Garfield would have lived.
From what I’ve read, Ft Jefferson was a boondoggle. The waters around were too shallow for any enemy ship to come within range of the fort’s guns.
For a light, highly fictionalized, mystery about Fort Jefferson and Dr. Mudd, combined with a modern day mystery, try “Flashback” by Nevada Barr.