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Category: PoW & Prisoner of War Camps - American Civil War --- See latest Civil War news here
Book found about Andersonville Civil War camp and Henry Wirz
Camp Sumter, the Civil War camp better known as Andersonville and its commandant, Captain Henry Wirz of the Confederate Army, stand apart as the epitome of cruelty toward POWs. About 13,000 Union soldiers wasted away in inhumane conditions at the Southern camp under his watch. A military commission convicted Wirz of war crimes under charges of conspiracy to "destroy the lives of soldiers." Researchers in Upstate New York have discovered a book handwritten in 1910 by the last living member of the military commission. The 54-page manuscript by John Howard Stibbs offers a rare glimpse into a juror's recollections.
by washingtonpost :: 2006-10-15 :: Civil War Books
Manuscript details trial of Civil War prison camp director
It was the first war crimes trial in US annals. Captain Henry Wirz was the commandant of a Confederate PoW camp during the Civil War in which some 13,000 Union soldiers died. He was hanged on the front lawn of the U.S. Capitol in 1865. His last words were that he had just been following orders - the same excuse used by many Nazi leaders 80 years later. The author of the 53-page manuscript was General John Howard Stibbs, an Iowa infantry commander. He was the last living member of the military jury that convicted Wirz of murder and inhumane treatment of prisoners when he wrote it longhand in 1910.
by buffalonews :: 2006-07-15 :: PoW & Prisoner of War Camps - American Civil War
Civil War PoWs suffered - military prisons on both sides
Wars inevitably result in casualties: The killed are buried, the wounded receive medical treatment, but what happens to POWs? Well, in the Civil War circumstances vary. In his "While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military prisons of the civil war," Charles W. Sanders Jr. has provided a account of Union and Confederate POW treatment. Union policy toward enemy POWs took its tone from Abraham Lincoln's decision to regard the Confederacy as states in rebellion rather than as an independent nation. Captured Confederates were to be considered traitors and rebels, in the same manner that Great Britain had viewed captured American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
by fredericksburg :: 2006-06-11 :: Wartime Soldiers - American Civil War