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Remains of executed Henry Wirz are reinterred, without the head...
Remains of executed Henry Wirz are reinterred, without the head...
Item # 693454
February 25, 1869
THE PRESS, Philadelphia, Feb. 25, 1869 The front page has a report concerning the reinterment of the infamous Henry Wirz, the "demon" warden of Andersonville Prison Camp who was tried & convicted of war crimes and was hanged on Nov. 10, 1865. He was only two men tried, convicted, and executed for war crimes during the Civil War.
The front page report concerning his reinterment with a subhead: "Wirz" and notes in part: "The remains of Capt. Henry Wirz were exhumed from the Arsenal ground...Wirz's body, after the execution, was placed in a pine coffin, similar to those used in the army, and was evidently buried minus the head. When the remains were transferred from the pine coffin to the walnut, the head was missing...There was fish upon the left leg, whilst the right arm was entirely gone, all the rest being merely a mass of crumbling bones."
Eight pages, a bit irregular at the spine from disbinding, some minor margin tears, good condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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