CONTENTS
PAGE Preface, .... 11
Introduction, .... 19
I. My Father's Birthplace and Childhood — School-days, College and Home Life, .... 23
II. My Mother's Statement, .... 29
III. Continuation of my Mother's Statement; also Sworn Statement of my Father, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, .... 40
IV. Argument of General Thomas Ewing to the Jurisdiction of the Military Commission, .... 49
V. Argument of General Ewing on the Law and the Evidence in the Case of Dr. Mudd, .... 60
VI. Prison Life at Fort Jefferson in 1865, as Told by Dr. Mudd and Others, .... 110
VII. Prison Life in 1865, Continued — Attempted Escape, as Told by my Father, .... 123
VIII. Negro Troops at Fort Jefferson, Relieved in Part by White Soldiery, .... 139
IX. Prison Life in 1866 — New Year's Day at Fort Jefferson, .... 154
X. Prison Life in 1866, Continued — Description of Fort Jefferson, .... 171
XI. Prison Life in 1866, Continued — General Sheridan Intervenes for Better Treatment of Prisoners, .... 190
XII. Prison Life in 1866, Continued — Plans for my Father's Release by Habeas Corpus Proceedings, .... 212
