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Chipman successfully prosecuted Captain Henry Wirz, the commander of the Confederacy's infamous Andersonville prison camp, where almost 13,000 Union soldiers lost their lives. [4] For his cruelties to prisoners of war and eleven homicides, Wirz was hanged in 1865. [ 1 ]
Wirz hears his death warrant at the scaffold near the U.S. Capitol Wirz's execution moments after the trapdoor was sprung Wirz's grave marker at Mount Olivet Cemetery, denoting him as a hero and a martyr. Wirz was hanged at 10:32 a.m. on November 10, 1865, at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington D.C., located next to the U.S. Capitol.
A wife found the body of her husband buried in 3 feet of snow after he was killed in an avalanche in Colorado on Tuesday, Jan. 7, an official Colorado Avalanche Information Center report stated
T.D. Gribble recalled how he embraced his mom Paula, 76, and kissed the head of his father Anthony Gribble, 80, on Thursday, Jan. 9, when he visited their home in Greenville N.C., NBC News reported.
Andersonville prisoners and tents, southwest view showing the dead-line, August 17, 1864. At this stage of the war, Andersonville Prison was frequently under-supplied with food. By 1864, civilians in the Confederacy and soldiers of the Confederate Army were all struggling to obtain sufficient quantities of food. The shortage of fare was ...
Levitt next turned to treatment as a play, called The Andersonville Trial, which opened at Henry Miller's Theatre on December 29, 1959, and ran for 179 performances. [2] The production was directed by José Ferrer and opened with George C. Scott as Chipman, Herbert Berghof as Wirz, Albert Dekker as Wirz's defense counsel, and Russell Hardie as Union general Lew Wallace, who presided over the ...
Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. Kantor's novel was not the basis for a 1996 John Frankenheimer film Andersonville ...
Wreckage of a crashed plane found about 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, on Feb. 7, 2025. The crashed plane is believed to be a Bering Air Caravan carrying 10 people which went missing on Feb. 6.