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By 1864, he had moved to Washington, D.C., to work at the War Department under Secretary Edwin M. Stanton. [1] 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]
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.
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.
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 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 ...
Victor Willis, the lead singer of the Village People, is explaining why the long-running disco band has decide to take part in Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration.
A girl with autism has died after falling into an icy pond near her home in Massachusetts. The 6-year-old child was reported missing to authorities around 2:30 p.m. local time on Friday, Jan. 17 ...
There was his life offered up to appease the public hysteria. William Marvel, Andersonville: The Last Depot (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), p. 246-247." →Sounds like a rather biased review of the events that took place69.42.44.152 04:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)