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Portrait of the "demon" warden of Andersonville prison camp...
Portrait of the "demon" warden of Andersonville prison camp...
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September 14, 1865
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Sept. 14, 1865 The front page features a print headed: "Werze, The Andersonville Demon", being the infamous Henry Wirz, the warden of the Andersonville prison camp who supervised the horrible treatment of Yankee prisoners. He would be found guilty & was executed, one of only two people convicted for war crimes during the American Civil War.
Quite rare to find a period portrait of him in a newspaper. Various front page column heads relating to the Civil War.
Eight pages, good condition.
Category: Yankee
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