In the years before 1865, the Civil War, led by President Abraham Lincoln, raged on. Finally, the Confederacy surrendered to the Union. An angry Confederate, John Wilkes Booth, decided to kill the president. After he shot Lincoln in Ford’s Theater, he received the help of a few Confederate supporters, one being Dr. Samuel Mudd. Mudd was guilty of knowingly assisting Booth after the actor assassinated Lincoln in 1865. Possibly the largest reason for Mudd’s sentence was that he knew that he was helping Booth and his fellow conspirator, David Herold. Although the two conspirators’ identity was unknown to Mudd until a few days after Booth and Herold asked Mudd for assistance, he later found out the truth. He sent them on their way, but continued
