Execution of Captain Wirz, of Andersonville prison infamy...
NEW YORK HERALD, Nov. 11, 1865 The top of the front page has: "WIRZ" "Details Of His Execution" "The Parting of the Prisoner with Winder" "He Charges His Old Companion in Crime to Redeem His Character from the Stain Upon It" "Gloomy Scene at the Scaffold" "The Prisoner Persists in Declaring His Innocence to the End" "Details of an Attempt at Suicide on the Part of Wirz" with more.
Page 4 has two editorials concerning Wirz, headed: "The Execution of Wirz" and: "The Execution of the Rebel 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.
Eight pages, nice condition.