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 war ...

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 held ...

Though he shares a family name with a Confederate officer hanged for war crimes, Heinrich L. Wirz, 86, did not grow up among Confederate enthusiasts. He was born in Bern, Switzerland — not far from ...

The American Civil War was not only fought with rifles and cannons. It was fought with hangings, firing squads, prison atrocities, and mob vengeance. At Fort Pillow, surrender turned into slaughter.

Dear Editor: During Confederate Heritage Month, it is fitting that we honor Confederate martyr, Captain Henry Wirz. Wirz, who commanded the stockade prison here in Tuscaloosa before/sbeing transferred ...

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THE trap opened. The prisoner fell, and the rope stretched taut. It was 10:30 a.m. on Friday, November 10, 1865. Henry Wirz, infantry major, C.S. Army, and a physician, was dead. He was the only man ...

For the past 20 years, Heinrich L. Wirz of Bremgarten, Switzerland, has made it a personal quest to learn as much as he can of an ancestor who became an infamous figure in the American Civil War. In ...