Vilified by the North and declared a martyr by the South, Henry Wirz, former commandant of Andersonville prison in Georgia, was the only Confederate soldier to be executed by the United States for ...

A few minutes past 10 a.m., Nov. 10, 1865, former Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp commander Capt. Henry Wirz walked briskly from the Old Capitol prison in Washington D.C., where he had been ...

That someone was Capt. Henry Wirz, the man in charge of the prisoners for most of the time Andersonville operated. Wirz seemed an easy guy to dislike. He was known for his gruff manner and ...

Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw a site where over 13,000 Union soldiers died. Convicted of war crimes ...

Soon after, R.B. WINDER, who was associated with WIRZ in the command at Andersonville, was allowed to visit him, and the two had a long conversation, devoted to a review of their career at the ...

Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on Nov. 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.

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Wirz, the commandant of the Confederacy’s prisoner of war camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was perhaps the second-most hated person in America, after John Wilkes Booth. “There are deeds ...

History comes to vivid life this weekend as The Andersonville Trial opens at the Apollo Civic Theater in Martinsburg, WV. Based on the real life trial of Henry Wirz during the Civil War ...