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“A Ball Tale”
Nearly a decade after the Civil War, a doctor in Vicksburg submitted a story to a medical journal that has since become legend.
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After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

Legrand Capers
An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western town during the Reconstruction.