Record Data Place Unit Type Location or Site Containing Unit Dry Tortugas, FL Events Date Type 07/15/1865 President Johnson orders the surviving Lincoln conspirators to serve their sentences off the coast of Florida Lawmaking/Litigating 09/25/1865 Samuel Mudd makes a vain attempt to escape from his life imprisonment at Fort Jefferson off the Florida coast Crime/Disasters People Documents Images Fort Jefferson, the Dry Tortugas, Florida, August 1865, artist's impression