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Dr. Samuel Mudd


During the Civil War Fort Jefferson was used as a prison for deserters and other criminals. Its most famous inmate was Dr. Samuel Mudd, the physician sentenced to jail in the wake of the Lincoln assassination.
Photo credit: The Florida Center for Instructional Technology, University of South Florida.

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