Trial of Captain Wirz, the Andersonville Jailer, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.
[Civil War] HARPER'S WEEKLY October 21, 1865 - ORIGINAL front page print and story.
On same page is story and print of Dr. Mudd's attempted escape by hiding in a steamer hold.
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.
