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<blockquote data-quote="Judge Sharpe" data-source="post: 1330560" data-attributes="member: 13878"><p>Dr. Mudd was the brother of one of my Great Great Grandfathers. The question of his involvement in the Lincoln assassination has hung around for a long time. As far as I know Bill O'Reily in his book "Killing Lincoln" is the only one who had serious evidence of Dr, Mudd's guilt. The good doctor was sent to prison in the Dry Tortugas but was paroled for his service during a yellow fever epidemic that struck the prison. </p><p>He and his brother, who later became a judge in Elyton and Birmingham,( the county seats of Jefferson County) Alabama, were republicans and were according to family legend supporters of Lincoln but not the Union in the War of Northern Aggression. </p><p>As a result the Judge's property was spared to a large extent when the Northern Armies swept through Alabama during Wilson's Raid on northern Alabama at the end of the war. It was during this raid that the University of Alabama was burned. </p><p>Another family legend was that Lou Wooster. Birmingham's most famous Madam was a lover of John Wilkes Booth and and in her Memoir, "The Autobiography of a Magdaline," said that Booth was a ardent Northern sympathiser and assassinated Lincoln because he felt Lincoln would be too easy on the South during reconstruction. </p><p>The greatest fault (other than being the Commander In Chief of the Union Forces) was that he suspended, unconstitutionally, Habeas corpus, one of our fundamental rights came down from the Magna Carta through English Common Law.</p><p>Was Dr. Mudd guilty of aiding and abetting Booth with foreknowledge of the assassination, or was he a simply a doctor helping an injured man who showed up at his door late at night? </p><p>Who knows? </p><p>And at this late date. who really cares?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Judge Sharpe, post: 1330560, member: 13878"] Dr. Mudd was the brother of one of my Great Great Grandfathers. The question of his involvement in the Lincoln assassination has hung around for a long time. As far as I know Bill O'Reily in his book "Killing Lincoln" is the only one who had serious evidence of Dr, Mudd's guilt. The good doctor was sent to prison in the Dry Tortugas but was paroled for his service during a yellow fever epidemic that struck the prison. He and his brother, who later became a judge in Elyton and Birmingham,( the county seats of Jefferson County) Alabama, were republicans and were according to family legend supporters of Lincoln but not the Union in the War of Northern Aggression. As a result the Judge's property was spared to a large extent when the Northern Armies swept through Alabama during Wilson's Raid on northern Alabama at the end of the war. It was during this raid that the University of Alabama was burned. Another family legend was that Lou Wooster. Birmingham's most famous Madam was a lover of John Wilkes Booth and and in her Memoir, "The Autobiography of a Magdaline," said that Booth was a ardent Northern sympathiser and assassinated Lincoln because he felt Lincoln would be too easy on the South during reconstruction. The greatest fault (other than being the Commander In Chief of the Union Forces) was that he suspended, unconstitutionally, Habeas corpus, one of our fundamental rights came down from the Magna Carta through English Common Law. Was Dr. Mudd guilty of aiding and abetting Booth with foreknowledge of the assassination, or was he a simply a doctor helping an injured man who showed up at his door late at night? Who knows? And at this late date. who really cares? [/QUOTE]
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