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  1. Samuel Bland Arnold (September 6, 1834 – September 21, 1906) was an American Confederate sympathizer involved in a plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He had joined the Confederate Army shortly after the start of the Civil War but was discharged due to health reasons in 1864.

  2. Samuel Bland Arnold. A childhood friend of John Wilkes Booth, both were schoolmates at St. Timothy's School in Catonsville, MD in the 1850s. Arnold was a veteran of the Confederate Army, and was recruited by Booth to participate in the kidnapping plot in 1864.

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  3. After his release from prison, Arnold wrote a detailed confession of his role in the plot to kidnap Lincoln. His statement was published in Samuel Bland Arnold: Memoirs of a Lincoln Conspirator by Michael W. Kauffman. Arnold died on September 21, 1906 of tuberculosis.

  4. The last surviving convicted conspirator was Samuel Arnold, who died in 1906 after writing a detailed confession of his role in the conspiracy to kidnap President Lincoln. Over the years, critics have attacked the verdicts, sentences, and procedures of the 1865 Military Commission.

  5. One of the manuscripts is Samuel Arnold's state-ment of his part in the conspiracy, written at Fort Jefferson in December 1867. The other, written in 1904, is an "autobiographical defense", detailing Arnold's relations with Booth and the other con-spirators and his prison experiences and obser-vations. After the murder of the President by John ...

  6. Aug 28, 2013 · By then the federal authorities had four others behind bars: Samuel Arnold and Michael O’Laughlen, accused of being part of the kidnapping scheme; a Ford’s stagehand named Edman Spangler ...

  7. Jul 16, 2015 · Three of the conspiratorsSamuel A. Mudd, David Herold, and Samuel Arnoldattended Georgetown College (later University). Woven together, the documents on display reveal some of the controversies and mysteries surrounding the assassination and the conspirators.

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