[Civil War] HARPER'S WEEKLY November 25, 1865 - ORIGINAL Four pages section with 4 prints and story about the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia,
Henry Wirz was a Swiss-born American military officer and convicted war criminal who served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). He was deemed a traitor, and hanged on November 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.
