The Trial and Death of Henry Wirz
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Excerpt from The Trial and Death of Henry Wirz: With Other Matters Pertaining Thereto In the fall of 1865, several months after the overthrow of the Confederacy, there took place in Washington City two judicial murders, which will ever stain the annals of the conquering States - that of Mrs. Surratt, hung for complicity in the assassination of Lincoln, and that of Henry Wirz, also done to death, after a mockery of a trial, for alleged ill treatment of prisoners under his care at Andersonville. The innocence of Mrs. Surratt has been fully shown in the account of her trial, written by her lawyer, the Honorable Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland; but the facts in regard to Wirz are not generally known. Captain Wirz was a physician by profession, and a man of education and of high character, a native of Switzerland, who came to this country about the year 1849 and settled in the South. On the breaking out of the war he enlisted at once, fought bravely until incapacitated for field duty by a wound, and served the Confederacy faithfully until the end of the war, filling satisfactorily those positions of trust to which his character and efficiency caused him to be appointed. On the fall of the Confederacy, although he was a paroled prisoner of war, having been included in the terms of Johnston´s surrender, he was arrested and, after an imprisonment of three months, he was tried by court-martial on the charge of conspiring with Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders to torture and murder the helpless prisoners at Andersonville, and was convicted and hanged. When in the shadow of death Captain Wirz was offered life and liberty if he would implicate President Davis in the alleged atrocities at Andersonville. As the charge was false, he preferred death, and died pleading that his name might be rescued from infamy. The highest officers of the Confederacy were indicted with him; and, not only to rescue his name from unmerited obloquy, but to dispel any cloud on their fair fame, the true facts should be borne in perpetual remembrance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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