Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison
State University of New York at Buffalo professor Carole Emberton teaches a class about Andersonville Prison, the Confederate Civil War military prison where 13,000 Union soldiers died, and the trial of its commander, Henry Wirz. She also spoke about the halt of the prisoner exchange program towards the end of the war and how the Wirz trial was used as a precedent for later war crimes proceedings.
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