The life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd containing his letters from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas island, where he was imprisoned four years for alleged complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with statements of Mrs. Samuel A. Mudd, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, and Edward Spangler regarding the assassinatin and the argument of General Ewing on the question of the jurisdiction of the Military commission, and on the law and facts of the case; also "diary" of John Wilkes Booth.