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Roger Powell, a long tenured ranger at Ford's is from Southern Maryland and very keen on the history of the area. He shared with me that it was a common practice that if a horse was hard to catch, the owner would sometimes put out an eye so he could come up on that side to be catch the horse. Kinda harsh.

The horse Booth rode was described as "spirited" so I guess that possibility would make sense as to how the horse lost its eye. But definitely harsh and then some.