Dr. Mudd's slave who cooked breakfast for JWB and David Herold
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03-01-2018, 05:19 PM
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RE: Dr. Mudd's slave who cooked breakfast for JWB and David Herold
(03-01-2018 04:27 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Thanks to Laurie for sending this article from Bob Summers’ excellent book on the Mudds and slavery. It's about a young slave who said she prepared breakfast for Booth and Herold. Her younger sister carried the tray upstairs. Roger: I second the motion on thanks to Laurie. Just so I have the time element straight, if Booth and Herold arrived at the Mudd farm at about 4:00 am on the morning of April 15 (which is the conventional wisdom), and Ms. Dade said that Dr. Mudd woke her at "about 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning", then this must have been on the 16th, i.e. Booth and Herold had already spent a full day there. And yet she says that Dr. Mudd was setting Booth's leg upstairs, which is why Louisa had to bring the breakfast up to him. This means that one of three things has to be true: Ms. Dade is mistaken as to the time she was woken; it must have been after 4:00 am, more likely about 5:00 am. Or, Booth's leg was set by Dr. Mudd on the second day that he was there (the 16th), which seems most unlikely. Or, Dr. Mudd and, presumably Frankie, his wife, knew in advance that Booth and Herold (or at least Booth) would be there in the wee hours of the 15th. Which is correct? Am I missing something? John |
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