Henry Wirz Hanged for Andersonville's Dead - November 10, 1865
From The Daily History Chronicle · 17:25
Show by Richard G Backus
Nearly 13,000 Union prisoners died at Andersonville, and the United States hanged exactly one man for it. Henry Wirz ran a camp where men starved, faced a trial that many historians call unfair, and became a martyr to the Lost Cause, and the record supports pieces of each. Follow the trial, a hidden death register, and an offer made the night before the gallows to ask who really answers for a system.
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