Food for Thought

[Anita]

(08-17-2019 08:07 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(08-17-2019 06:17 PM)Anita Wrote:  Bob,
Thanks for posting the links.

Roger,
What a fantastic purchase!

Laurie,
Here's a an article on the the Mudd family's recent descendant gathering this past July 2019. https://www.pressreader.com/usa/maryland...0752807832

Thanks, Anita. The Maryland Independent that carried this story originally is one of the local newspapers in Southern Maryland, so I had already seen it. I couldn't get the text to slide to the left here, so I don't know if this version carried the photos also, but there is a nice one of Mary Mudd McHale, a great-granddaughter (daughter of Dr. Richard), who has been very supportive of the Surratt House and Society through the years. If there are photos of the Mudd docents who did reenactments of Dr. Mudd's return, the lady portraying Frankie Mudd is Kate Taylor, wife of Dave Taylor.

Does the article also mention that there was a very bad traffic accident that involved some of the younger Mudd descendants en route home from the gathering? Thankfully, no one received very serious injuries.

The article didn't mention the accident. Glad no serious injuries. Laurie, if you click on the text, hold it and move the mouse to the right it takes you to through the pages, photos. Yes, it sure is Dave Tayolor's wife!

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(08-17-2019 08:47 PM)bob_summers Wrote:  

(08-17-2019 06:17 PM)Anita Wrote:  Here's a an article on the Mudd family's recent descendant gathering this past July 2019. https://www.pressreader.com/usa/maryland...0752807832

Anita: thanks for the link to the story. I hadn't seen it. One comment: In the article, Mr. Collins says that 87 black soldiers trained near the Mudd farm. I'm not sure where that figure comes from. There were actually about 4,000 black troops training nearby. The 7th, 9th, 19th, and 30th U.S. Colored Troop regiments, 1,000 men each, trained just 10 miles away at Camp Stanton (Benedict, Maryland) during the fall and winter of 1863-64.

Bob, That's a big discrepancy. While looking into this I came across interesting references to Dr. Mudd's slaves who ran off. This is all new to me. https://books.google.com/books?id=kBEVAAAAYAAJ