John Surratt

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That lost confession was likely pocketed by Atzerodt's attorney because it revealed too much. However, it was printed in at least one newspaper at the time (I'll have to check on the date). It was also resurrected at the John Surratt trial - and evidently went back to Doster in whose hands it was then passed down to later generations.

As for Spangler and Mudd, I don't believe that Spangler went immediately to live with the Mudds. He eventually did, however, and the family found him literally up a tree on their property, having been chased there by the family's dogs. He was converted to Catholicism on his death bed and buried in the Mudd family's church's graveyard - old St. Peter's Catholic Cemetery about a mile from their home. The Surratt Society and the Dr. Mudd Society marked his grave back in the 1980s.