Samuel Arnold (conspirator)
Samuel Bland Arnold (September 6, 1834 – September 21, 1906) was an American Confederate States of America, Confederate sympathizer involved in Assassination of Abraham Lincoln#Abandoned plan to kidnap Lincoln, a plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He had joined the Confederate States Army, Confederate Army shortly after the start of the American Civil War, Civil War but was discharged due to health reasons in 1864. Early life Samuel Arnold was born in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., on September 6, 1834. He was the son of Mary Jane and George Arnold, Sr. and had an older brother. The family later moved to Baltimore where Arnold attended St. Timothy's Hall, a military academy – where he and John Wilkes Booth were Schoolmates. Role in Lincoln kidnapping conspiracy After his discharge, Arnold returned to Baltimore and in the late summer of 1864, he was recruited by Booth to be part of the kidnap plot. Bore ...
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