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The Andersonville Prison trial begins...
The Andersonville Prison trial begins...
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August 22, 1865
NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 22, 1865 Most of the front page is taken up with reports on the trial of Capt. Henry Wirz. Wirz was a Swiss-American convicted war criminal who served as a Confederate Army officer during the Civil War. 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 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.
The column heads include: "THE REBEL ASSASSINS" "Trial of Henry Wirz, the Andersonville Jailor" "Reading of the Charges & Specifications" "He is Charged With Conspiring with Lee, Seddon & Others to Kill Union Prisoners" "Rehearsal of the Terrible Atrocities Perpetrated at Andersonville" "They Plead that Wirz Should be Discharged Without Punishment" and more.
Also on the front page: "North Carolina - The Scheme to Exterminate the Colored Race".
Inside includes: "The Negres In Virginia--Complaints from the Farmers--Who Shall Support the Worn-Out Slaves?" "The Freedmen's Home Farm--Jeff. Davis' Old Plantation" and: "Is the South Still to be Its Own Worst Enemy?"
Eight pages, great condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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