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Trial of Wirz, Andersonville Prison... Reconstruction in the South...
Trial of Wirz, Andersonville Prison... Reconstruction in the South...
Item # 708699
September 02, 1865
NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 2, 1865 Much reporting on Reconstruction efforts in the South. The front page has: "THE SOUTH AS IT IS" "A View of the Battle-Field of Stone River" "Operations of the Freedmen's Bureau" "Visit to the Home of General Andrew Jackson" "Atlanta & What There is Left of It".
Page 2 has more on this, as seen in the photos.
Page 5 has: "The Trial of Capt. Wirz" Further Testimony as to Hunting Men With Bloodhounds & Other Harsh Treatment--The Records of Andersonville Prison not Stolen...".
Henry 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.
Eight pages, never-trimmed margins, very nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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