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Captain Henry Wirz
After the end of the war, Capt. Henry Wirz was arrested and convicted for war crimes committed while commanding the Confederate prison at Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia. Almost 13,000 of the 45,000 Union soldiers held at the camp died in captivity. Although accused of repeated acts of brutality, Wirz claimed that a debilitating injury to his right arm proved his innocence. He was executed on November 10, 1865 and an autopsy revealed that Wirz had had full use of his right arm. |