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The demon jailer of Andersonville...
The demon jailer of Andersonville...
Item # 620037
August 24, 1865
THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 24, 1865 NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 24, 1865 One-third of the front page has reports on 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.
Front page heads include: "TRIAL OF CAPT. WIRZ" "The Military Court Convened Under a New Order" "Amendment of the Charge and Specifications" "The Names of Gen. Lee, Secretary Seldon Others Omitted" "Counsel for the Prisoner Abandon the Case" "The Trial to Go On as Speedily as Possible".Eight pages, bit irregular at the spine, very nice, clean condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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