Andersonville

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Andersonville
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Providence Spring
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The Numbers

• 40,000 - 45,000 Union prisoners held
• 13,000 Died of Disease and starvation.
• 26.5 acres of ground left each soldier a spot
  that was 7 feet by 4 feet wide to live in.

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Erected in the center of town in 1909 by the
Daughters of the Confederacy, honors the memory
of Captain Henry R. Wirz, The only person hanged
for war crimes during the Civil War.
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Captain Henry Wirz
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• His trial and execution remain controversial to
  this day
• some believe the truly guilty parties were his
  supervising officers, and that he was made a
  scapegoat for their incompetency.
• In a famous trial in Washington, D.C., before a
  military tribunal at the first War Crimes trial,
  Wirz refused a pardon if he implicated President
  Jefferson Davis.
• He was hanged on Nov. 10, 1865, on the same
  scaffold which executed the Booth conspirators.

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