xiii+280pp. In June 1865, Samuel A. Mudd was convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth and others to assassinate President Lincoln. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on an island off the coast of Florida. He was pardoned in 1869 following his help in a yellow fever outbreak, but it left the question as to whether he was guilty of the original crime? In 1993 a group of Jurists and Civil War historians "tried" the case again - a fascinating reconstruction. Index.

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