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Trial of Wirz: the 'demon jailer of Andersonville'...
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Trial of Wirz: the 'demon jailer of Andersonville'...

Item # 708586 ·
NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 27, 1865  Page 5 has over a full column of reports on Captain Henry Wirz, the convicted war criminal who served as a Confederate Army officer.
He was the commandant of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp near Andersonville, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 Union Army prisoners of war died as a result of inhumane conditions. After the war, Wirz was tried and executed for conspiracy and murder relating to his command of the camp.
 Column heads include: "TRIAL OF CAPT. WIRZ" "The Testimony Taken on Friday" "Insufficiency of Food for the Prisoners" "Fearful Mortality Induced by Starvation" "The Bloody Records of the Dead Line" "Not a Particle of Shelter from Heat or Cold" "Short Rations Frequent, and Often None at All" "A Record of Horror to Disgrace Civilization".
Eight pages, very nice condition.

Item from our most recent catalog - #369 - released for August, 2026

Category: Post-Civil War
Price
$28
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.