Confederate Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of Andersonville prison, is executed in Washington D.C. for war crimes during the Civil War. Wirz, an immigrant from Switzerland, oversaw Andersonville's high mortality rate among Union prisoners-of-war.
Year
1865
Date of Event
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