Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd and his wife, Sarah Frances Dyer, lived here. Early on the morning of April 15, 1865, John Wilkes Booth arrived with David E. Herold and asked Mudd to set Booth’s broken leg. After Booth rested in an upstairs bedroom, Mudd rode into Bryantown and returned late in the afternoon to find the two men departing. When later questioned by U.S. authorities, Mudd said he did not recognize Booth or know he was being sought and that he first learned of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in Bryantown. Other witnesses said Booth had met Mudd in late 1864 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church below Bryantown while visiting Charles County ostensibly to buy real estate, then stayed here overnight and bought a horse from Mudd’s neighbor. According to testimony, Mudd also accompanied Booth into Bryantown and introduced him to Confederate agent Thomas Harbin, and a few days later met Booth again in Washington and introduced him to John H. Surratt. Charged with conspiring with Booth from the beginning, Mudd maintained that those earlier meetings were innocent, that Booth had been disguised on April 15, and that he had only done his duty as a physician. Convicted and sentenced to life in prison at Fort Jefferson in the Florida Keys, he later distinguished himself by treating sick prisoners and guards during the deadly 1867 yellow fever epidemic. President Andrew Johnson pardoned him in 1869, and Mudd died here on January 10, 1883.