NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 31, 1865  

* Andersonville Prison - Camp Sumter
* Captain Henry Wirz trial - Georgia

The front page has much on the trial of Captain 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.  Column heads include: "TRIAL OF CAPT. WIRZ" "Some Discussion About Handcuffing the Prisoner" "The Tendency of Evidence the Same as on Former Days" The Andersonville Tortures" and more. The text consumes 2 1/2 columns of the front page. Included is a letter from Henry Wirz. Page 2 has: "Wirz & the Union Prisoners".
Eight pages, very nice condition.

background: The August 31, 1865, issue of the New York Times captures a pivotal moment in American jurisprudence, documenting the trial of Captain Henry Wirz as a visceral public reckoning with the atrocities of Andersonville. The extensive coverage—filling two and a half columns of the front page—details the grim "Andersonville Tortures" and the procedural debates over the prisoner's treatment, such as the symbolic act of handcuffing, which signaled the shift from military combat to criminal accountability. By including a personal letter from Wirz, the paper provides a rare glimpse into his defense narrative—the claim that he was merely a cog in a collapsing system—juxtaposed against the overwhelming evidence of "inhumane conditions" that led to the deaths of nearly 13,000 Union soldiers. This report serves not just as news, but as a primary historical record of the North’s demand for justice during the fragile early months of Reconstruction, immortalizing the only Confederate official to be executed for war crimes.