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Article: CHARLES COUNTY.(Friday Home Guide)(Charles County)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 11, 1998
- Author:
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In the wee hours of April 15, 1865, John Wilkes Booth knocked on the door of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd's home in Charles County, Md., seeking medical attention.
Had Mudd known that his patient had shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln hours before at Ford's Theatre in Washington, he might not have set Booth's broken leg or spent four years imprisoned at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas.
Charles County is steeped in such historical events - events that helped shape the nation.
Few folks recall, for example, that the first president of the American government made his first home in Port Tobacco, an area of rich farmland that was a major ...