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Henry Wirz, Former Commander of Confederate Prison Was Hanged


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Photo of the reading of the death warrant to Wirz on the scaffold

Reading the death warrant to Wirz on the scaffold in Washington, D.C.

CREDIT: "Washington, D.C. Reading the Death Warrant to Wirz on the Scaffold." November 10, 1865. Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress.



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