NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 29, 1865  

* Andersonville prison trial
* Barbarities by Henry Wirz

The front page has much on the trial of Henry Wirz.
Wirz was a Confederate Army officer during the Civil War. He was the commandant of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in 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. This made the captain the highest-ranking soldier and only officer of the Confederate Army to be sentenced to death for crimes during their service. 
Column heads include: "TRIAL OF CAPT. WIRZ" "Further Testimony as to Inhuman Treatment" "Sharp Cross-examinations by Defendant's Counsel" "Collision Between the Counsel & the Court" and more. This text takes one-third of the front page.
Eight pages, minor binding indents at the blank spine, nice condition.

Background: The August 29, 1865 edition of The New York Times represents a rare, museum-quality artifact capturing a pivotal moment in American jurisprudence: the war crimes trial of Confederate Captain Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Andersonville Prison. Occupying a staggering one-third of the front page, this eight-page broadsheet documents the high-stakes "collision" between military judges and defense counsel as the nation confronted the grim reality of the Civil War’s deadliest prisoner-of-war camp, where nearly 13,000 Union soldiers perished from disease, starvation, and cruelty. This publication carries immense historical significance because it chronicles a profound legal precedent; Wirz’s subsequent conviction and execution made him the highest-ranking Confederate soldier and only officer put to death for war crimes. Ultimately, this specific issue serves as a rare, real-time window into a fractured nation attempting to establish accountability and define the moral boundaries of military conduct in the immediate, raw aftermath of the rebellion.