Author: Saul Levitt
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822200420
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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THE STORY: As told by Chapman from the NY Daily News: Wirz, a Swiss immigrant and a doctor, had enlisted in the rebel army, had been severely wounded and, a semi-invalid, had been put in command of this military prison. It was merely a stockade wi
Author: Norton Parker Chipman
Publisher:
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Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Author: Henry Wirz
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017440324
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Norton Parker Chipman
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Susan Banfield
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766013865
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Examines the war crimes trial, in which Henry Wirz, the Confederate officer in charge of Andersonville Prison camp was accused of allowing the prisoners to be deliberately abused and neglected.
Author: John L. Ransom
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Category : Civil war
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: Norton Parker Chipman
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 511
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Author: Catherine Gourley
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ™
ISBN: 1467776327
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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The Confederate prison known as Andersonville existed for only the last fourteen months of the Civil War―but its well-documented legacy of horror has lived on in the diaries of its prisoners and the transcripts of the trial of its commandant. The diaries describe appalling conditions in which vermin-infested men were crowded into an open stockade with a single befouled stream as their water source. Food was scarce and medical supplies virtually nonexistent. The bodies of those who did not survive the night had to be cleared away each morning. Designed to house 10,000 Yankee prisoners, Andersonville held 32,000 during August 1864. Nearly a third of the 45,000 prisoners who passed through the camp perished. Exposure, starvation, and disease were the main causes, but excessively harsh penal practices and even violence among themselves contributed to the unprecedented death rate. At the end of the war, outraged Northerners demanded retribution for such travesties, and they received it in the form of the trial and subsequent hanging of Captain Henry Wirz, the prison’s commandant. The trial was the subject of legal controversy for decades afterward, as many people felt justice was ignored in order to appease the Northerners’ moral outrage over the horrors of Andersonville. The story of Andersonville is a complex one involving politics, intrigue, mismanagement, unfortunate timing, and, of course, people - both good and bad. Relying heavily on first-person reports and legal documents, author Catherine Gourley gives us a fascinating look into one of the most painful incidents of U.S. history.
Author: James Madison Page
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Looks at Andersonville Prison's commandant during the U.S. Civil War, Confederate Major Henry Wirz, who was arrested and later found guilty on war crimes charges for allowing inhumane conditions and treatment of prisoners of war at the prison.
Author: Norton Parker Chipman
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Category : Trials (Military offenses)
Languages : en
Pages : 511
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