Archive for November, 2007
Slavery
Until the cleansing of the Civil War, slavery was a fact in the United States. The bloodshed of the Civil War brought an end to slavery and kept this nation as an undivided union of states.
Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd
Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd was the physician who treated assassin John Wilkes Booth’s broken left leg after Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln. Booth had broken his leg when he leapt onto the stage from the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre after shooting Lincoln in the back of his head. Booth then fled on horseback.

