In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. Persistent efforts to rewrite history, however, have obscured certain facts supporting the conclusions of the military commission that first found Dr. Mudd guilty. For example, Fort Jefferson was never called "Shark Island." As an added measure, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Richard D. Mudd in December 1997 in the Federal Court for the District of Columbia (Richard D. Mudd v. Togo West) seeking to force the secretary of the Army to accept the recommendation of the ABCMR. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, US Army's Deputy Director of Operations during the Iraq War that deposed dictator Saddam Hussein; presently (2013) commander of Third Army. He returned home, taking with him Edman Spangler, who he gave 5 acres of land. Carter, Samuel. The board did not consider innocence or guilt but only whether the military commission that tried Mudd had legal jurisdiction to do so. This included the shooting of one of his men for disobedience. We (Mudd and Booth) started down one street, and then up another, and had not gone far when we met Surratt and Weichmann. It was argued by Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War, that the men should be tried by a military court as Lincoln had been Commander in Chief of the army. In describing the Washington meeting referred to by Dutton, Mudd wrote: We [Mudd and Booth] started down one street, and then up another, and had not gone far when we met Surratt and Wiechmann. Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd was born on December 20, 1833, on a large plantation in Charles County, Maryland. Despite his own efforts and the efforts of his defenders to rewrite history, his name is still mud. This testimony places Booth in Bryantown on Monday evening during his second visit in December. Mrs. Mudd passed these comments onto President Andrew Johnson who responded by ordering better treatment for Mudd and his fellow conspirators at Fort Jefferson. SIGNIFICANCE: During his flight after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth visited Dr. Samuel A. Mudd for treatment of his broken ankle. He continued, I have never seen Booth since that time to my knowledge until last Saturday night.”. It is clear from both Mudd’s own statement in his affidavit of August 28, 1865, and Thompson’s testimony during the trial that Booth visited the Bryantown area in Charles County a second time in mid-December 1864. George Atzerodt, the man Booth assigned to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson, implicated Mudd more directly in Booth’s plot when he confessed to Marshal McPhail of Baltimore, “I am certain Mudd knew all about it, as Booth sent (as he told me) liquors & provisions for the trip with the President to Richmond, about two weeks before the murder to Dr. Mudd’s.“, Dr. Richard Stuart, another Confederate operative who lived south of the Potomac River in King George, Virginia, received Booth and Herold after Harbin saw them safely to Stuart’s house. Mudd’s statement that Booth spent the night at his house after their introduction in November 1864 and that he purchased a horse the next morning is not true. Harbin had served during the war as a Confederate secret service agent involved in covert operations in Charles County, Maryland, including the Bryantown area, and in King George County, Virginia. Hall in his book Come Retribution, in Mudd’s three previous meetings with Booth, Mudd had played a pivotal role in Booth’s scheme to assemble an action team to capture President Lincoln and carry him to Richmond as a prisoner of the Confederacy. Harbin also helped by joining with Surratt to recruit George A. Atzerodt in Booth’s conspiracy. Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Samuel Mudd, Michael O'Laughlin, Edman Spangler and Samuel Arnold were all charged with conspiring to murder Lincoln. He knew the statements were false and was attempting to conceal other information that would prove even more incriminating.