Publisher's Synopsis
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was one the eight persons convicted in the 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination trial. This book is a biography of Dr. Mudd's wife, Sarah Frances Dyer.
Four of those convicted were executed. The other four, including Dr. Mudd, were incarcerated at the Fort Jefferson military prison located on a small island in the Gulf of Mexico, 70 miles west of Key West, Florida, and a thousand miles from Dr. Mudd's home in Maryland.
Sarah had lived a rather privileged life before the Lincoln assassination and all that followed. She grew up on a profitable Southern Maryland tobacco farm, attended a prestigious boarding school in Frederick, Maryland, married her childhood sweetheart, Sam Mudd, was living on a farm Sam's father gave the young couple as a wedding present, and had four healthy young children.
Then, one day, Sam was introduced to John Wilkes Booth at a local church service, and her life began to unravel.
