|
 President Andrew Johnson - Dr. Samuel Mudd's Pardon - Fort Jefferson, FL Posted by:  YoSam.
N 24° 37.680 W 082° 52.445
17R E 310299 N 2725050
Steel plaque at the cell once occupied by Dr. Mudd. Dr. Mudd was imprisoned here at Fort Jefferson for setting the leg of a suspected plotter of Lincoln's death.
Waymark Code: WMZP3T
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/12/2018
Views: 1
County of site: Monroe County
Location of marker: West wall cell, Fort Jefferson, Dry Torugugas
Marker erected by: National Park Service, Department of the Interior
Date marker erected: March 1961
Marker Text: In memory of
DR. SAMUEL A. MUDD
1833-1883
Imprisoned Fort Jefferson, Florida
July 24, 1865
"...upon occasion of the prevalence of the yellow fever Samuel A. Mudd devoted himself to the care and cure of the sick, and interposed his courage and skill to protect the garrison...from peril and alarm, and thus...saved many valuable lives, and earned the admiration and gratitude of all who observed or experienced his generous and faithful services to humanity." PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON
Pardon, dated February 8, 1869
DR MUDD WAS RELEASED, AND LEFT FORT JEFFERSON
March 11, 1869
Address:
Fort Jefferson
Garden Key
Dry Tortugas
Key West, FL 33040
Website: [Web Link]
|
Visit Instructions:
Please include the following with your submission of a visit:
1. Photograph as a proof of your visit.
2. Short narrative. Tell of your visit, share something new, edit the waymark with additional quotes found a the location, add new visiting hours or anything that would be nice to know when visiting the location.
3. Finally, please add a visit if you go to the area and you find the building, memorial, memorial or structure has been removed. Please submit an edit to the waymark adding the words {Historic/Removed} at the end. Also, edit the short description to annotate the reason it was removed for the value to other visitors.
Recent Visits/Logs:
| There are no logs for this waymark yet. |
|
|
|
|