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To: soakncider

Andersonville.
“When the War ended, Captain Henry Wirz, the prison’s commandant, was arrested and charged with conspiring with high Confederate officials to “impair and injure the health and destroy the lives…of Federal prisoners” and “murder in violation of the laws of war.” Such a conspiracy never existed, but public anger and indignation throughout the North over the conditions at Andersonville demanded appeasement. Tried and found guilty by a military tribunal, Wirz was hanged in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 1865. Wirz was the only person executed for war crimes during the Civil War.”


31 posted on 01/17/2016 6:57:23 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: HandyDandy

The fact that none of the atrocities committed by the yankees were punished, is a travesty indeed.

The South had little ability to feed itself and the POWs in Anderson, thanks to yankee total war doctrine of sherman, grant, and lincoln.


34 posted on 01/17/2016 7:13:22 PM PST by soakncider ("The two enemies of the people are criminals and government"...Thomas Jefferson)
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