Breaking a leg

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Booth rode past one on his way to the tavern. I can't remember the doctor's name, but Lloyd mentions it and said that he told Booth about the man, but that the doctor was retired. It would have meant circling back about a half-mile, but certainly a doctor would have tended someone who came to him in pain.

As I said before, Booth and Herold then rode past Dr. Blandford's home, which sat right on the New Cut Road (now Brandywine Road) before getting to T.B. There was no doctor in T.B. at that time. My great-grandfather paid to set one up in practice after the war.

My personal opinion is that, if Booth's broken bone was just the fibula, he could have sucked up the pain and kept on going north to wherever Jerry thinks was his intent. I still think Mudd's was a planned stopover on a planned escape into the South. It's just my thinking - not my declaration, but it makes more sense with Herold having been in Southern Maryland the day before.