The Voice of Nettie Mudd

[Gene C]

According to Sam Arnold, officers of some rank from the War Department came to interview (interrogate) the conspiritors in hopes of getting some solid/credible info regarding the Confederate Gov't involvement in Lincoln's assasination (or cause problems for Johnson, and confirm comments made in prominant newspapers about cruelty to prisoners at Ft. Jefferson). It would not have been difficult to bring a photographer and nicer clothes with them. (Photograph to prove Mudd was in good health?)

There were letters being published in some of the major newspapers regarding cruelty to prisoners at Ft. Jefferson (were these letters Dr. Mudd mailed home to his wife?) and the War Dept. had some explaining to do. All of this at the time of Johnson's ongoing problems with the radical Republicans and the impeachment hearings.