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Henry Wirz, Swiss-American captain in Confederate army, commandant of Andersonville Prison (born 1823)
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Henry Wirz
Confederate States Army officer (1823–1865)
Henry Wirz was a Swiss-American convicted war criminal who served as a Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War. He was the commandant of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp near Andersonville, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 Union Army prisoners…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Andersonville Prison
Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia
The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the American Civil War. Most of the site lies in southwestern Macon County, adjacent…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)