Andersonville Prison
Title: Andersonville Prison
Category: /History
Details: Words: 282 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Andersonville Prison
Category: /History
Details: Words: 282 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 282 total…to Andersonville during the 14 months the prison was in operation. Of these, 12,912 died from disease, malnutrition and/or exposure.
Former prisoners blamed Capt. Henry Wirz, commander of the interior of the prison, for the suffering. As a result, Wirz was tried in August of 1865 after the Confederate surrender, on charges of murder and conspiring with Jefferson Davis (the Confederate leader) to murder. He was found guilty by a military commission, and hanged on November 10th, 1865.
