Trial of Captain Henry Wirz: Andersonville prison warden...

Item # 708590

August 31, 1865

NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 31, 1865 The front page has much on the trial of 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.

Column heads include: "TRIAL OF CAPT. WIRZ" "Some Discussion About Handcuffing the Prisoner" "The Tendency of Evidence the Same as on Former Days" The Andersonville Tortures" and more. The text consumes 2 1/2 columns of the front page. Included is a letter from Henry Wirz. Page 2 has: "Wirz & the Union Prisoners".
Eight pages, very nice condition.