... 's broken leg was bothering him. The bone was tearing through all of the skin on his leg, leaving it a bloody, skinless area. Therefore they stopped at the farm of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd so he could tend to Booth's leg. Dr. Mudd was secretly part of the conspiracy and was to be hanged later. Booth and Herold were planning to stop at ... ...

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... Booth wanted to give the Confederacy one last chance to be successful in the war. To carry this out he recruited others to help him. Even though John Matthews and Samuel Knapp Chester declined the offer, Michael O"Laughlin, Sam Arnold, George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Lewis Paine still came to the side of Booth. O" Laughlin and Arnold would later drop out ... ...

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