Trial of the "demon" warden of Andersonville Prison...

Item # 708589

August 30, 1865

NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 30, 1865 Page 5 has over a column of reports on the trial of Henry Wirz. Wirz was 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 a 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 the only officer of the Confederate Army to be sentenced to death for crimes during their service.
Column heads include: "TRIAL OF CAPT. WIRZ" "Testimony of Dr. J. G. Roy, Physician at Andersonville" "His Terrible Picture of That Awful Place" "Some Evidence From Prisoners Under Wirz" and more.
The front page has much reporting on the situation in the South from just after the Civil War, and work towards Reconstruction: "THE SOUTH AS IT IS" "Historic Ground Between Washington and Richmond" "Condition of Business and the People in Alabama" and much more.
Eight pages, very nice condition.