Dr Samuel Mudd And Baby Eagles

The conviction of Dr. Samuel Mudd proved to be--along with the death sentence for Mary Surratt--the most controversial action of the Military Commission that tried the Lincoln assassination conspirators.   Critics suggested that Dr. Mudd was but a country doctor, in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing what doctors are trained to do: treat patients--in Mudd's case, a man who had just killed the President.  An examination of the evidence makes clear, however, that Mudd lied to the Commission and concealed his knowledge of the conspiracy. The son of the large plantation owner , samuel mudd attended Georgetown College, then graduated from the University of Maryland, where he studied medicine.  Mudd married and set up practice on a farm five miles from Bryantown, Maryland. Mudd, an advocate of slavery, supported the Confederacy during the Civil War.  He often expressed his dislike--even hatred--for Lincoln and his policies. About four o'clock on the morning following the Lincoln assassination two men on horseback arrived at the Mudd farm near Bryantown.  The men, it turned out, were John Wilkes Booth--in severe pain with a badly fractured leg that he received from his fall to the stage after shooting the President--and David Herold.  Mudd welcomed the men into his house, first placing Booth on his sofa, then later carrying him upstairs to a bed where he dressed the limb. 

The eagles are in the middle of a nap while the mother or father eagle is watching over the nest. One just woke up and its mother is feeding it is so cute i love watching the eagles. And last night for dinner they had fish and crow. When they grow up there going to be white and brown instead of grey. Remember you can see these eagles at www.alcoa.com/eaglecam. I hope they live a very long time!