Captain Henry Wirz
Execution of Captain Wirtz, the Keeper of Andersonville Prison.
Henry Wirz Execution. The Drop. Creator, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer. Taylor & Huntington, publisher.
Eyewitness to the Arrest of Henry Wirz - YouTube
... Capt. Henry E. Noyes, an aide to Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson. Here's Noyes's account of how the arrest happened, and details of Wirz's journey ...
Henry Wirz to Richard B. Winder about prosecutions for ...
Captain Henry Wirz was the commandant of Andersonville Prison; he was tried and executed for war crimes in 1865. Major Richard Bayly Winder served as ...
Captain Henry Wirz - Google Arts & Culture
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Captain Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison: A Reappraisal - Gale
It was a cruel, impossible situation with Wirz caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. As 1864 passed Wirz became bedridden, stricken with scurvy and ...
Henry Wirz Trial: 1865 | Encyclopedia.com
Defendant: Captain Henry Wirz Crimes Charged: 13 counts of murder, assault, battery, torture and other offenses against Union prisoners
Monument to Captain Henry Wirz - Andersonville, Georgia
A monument to Captain Henry Wirz, the commander of Camp Sumter prison camp - better known as Andersonville - stands in the heart of Andersonville, Georgia.
Andersonville Prison and Captain Henry Wirz trial.
Andersonville Prison and Captain Henry Wirz trial. Available at Special Collections Library Special Collections Hargrett (Ga Room E612 .A5 R9 1983) ...
Henry Wirz | Military Wiki - Fandom
Winder, who was in charge of Confederate prisoner of war camps. President Jefferson Davis made Captain Wirz a Special Minister and sent him to Europe carrying ...
Reading the Death Warrant on Scaffold to Captain Henry Wirz, Commander of Fort Sumter, Washington DC, November 1865.
Capt. Henry Wirz | Prisons & Prisoners - Civil War Talk
He was also falsely convicted on a second charge of conspiracy with high ranking members of the Confederate government to create the conditions ...
Why Does This Georgia Town Honor One of America's Worst War ...
Confederate Captain Henry Wirz. Wirz, the commandant of the Confederacy's prisoner of war camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was perhaps the ...
Redecorating the Beast: The Life and Death of Captain Henry Wirz ...
Dubbed the “Butcher of Andersonville,” Wirz had been in charge of the Georgia military prison. During his command, nearly thirteen thousand Union prisoners of ...
Wirz, Elizabeth, 1826-? [Affidavit concerning the lies of General LC ...
Affidavit concerning the lies of General L.C. Baker in regard to the case of Henry Wirz] | | Wirz, the wife of the recently executed Captain Henry Wirz, ...
Weekend Read: Executed for committing war crimes
Captain Henry Wirz took command of a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Andersonville, Georgia, in 1864. But within six months of its ...
The Tragedy of Andersonville Trial of Captain Henry Wirz The Prison ...
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CPT Heinrich Hartmann “Henry” Wirz (1823-1865) - Find a Grave
A native of Switzerland, he was a Captain (also designated MAJOR) in the Confederate Army , commander of Camp Sumter and the notorious Confederate prison at ...
Family of Henry Wirz (the Andersonville commander) - History Hub
... Henry" WIRZ, commander of the Civil War Andersonville POW camp. Our old aunties--now deceased--didn't know any more than that. Captain Wirz ...
Captain Henry Wirz - The Historical Marker Database
Captain Henry Wirz, under the immediate command of Brigadier-General John H. Winder, Confederate States of America, absent on sick leave, August 1864, ...
ANDERSONVILLE Georgia Civil War Prison CAPTAIN HENRY ...
The top of the front page has nice heads on the trial of Henry Wirz, the "demon" warden of the infamous Andersonville prison camp in South Carolina: ...