Henry Wirz The Commandant Of Andersonville

Andersonville

Wirz Ran it As A Slum

Gangs Of Prisoners Shook Newcomers Down, And Wirz Got A Cut

After The War Was Over, Captain Wirz's Was Brought To Trial

Wirz Was Convicted And Hung

His Neck Didn't Snap, So He Slowly Strangled To Death

Why All The Interest In Reclaiming Henry Wirz's Image

Most of the plays out there on Andersonville portray Capt Wirz is a broken and frail man. The new chant is, 'He was just obeying orders.'

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Who Was Henry Wirz?

Wirz, who was born in 1823, came from either Germany or Switzerland, and barely spoke English. His father was a Jewish clothing haberdasher. Wirz took some medical courses at a European University,

Wirz is married in 1845, and has two children. He was caught embezzling funds from his employer, and sentenced to prison. With 'John Law' on his tail he flees to America in 1849. He works as a tailor, in 1854 he marries a Elizibeth Wolfe, working with her father. Next, he moves to Cardiz, Louisiana, where he sets up a medical practice. Once again Wirz has legal problems.

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Marshall Plantation

Wirz may have molested some patients, he quickly flees to Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana, where he found employment on a fellow Hebrew's Marshall plantation, tending to the sick and injured among the slaves.

On June 16, 1862, he joins the Army.

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Spends A Year In Paris

Somehow Jefferson Davis discovers Wirz and makes him a special emissary, Wirz spends the year of 1863 in London and Berlin.  In February 1864 he journeyed back to the Confederacy, and on March 27 he was installed as commandant of Andersonville.

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What Did Wirz Do

As a commander of a prison he had prisoners tortured to extract military information, a set up similar to Abu Ghraib in Iraq. He sold pardons, he embezzled the camp funds, tortured prisoners, and was a pompous sadist.

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Wirz Takes A Special Interest In Drummer Boys

It seems that Wirz had a eye for Drummer Boys. He always granted the drummer boys special privileges. Rumors always flew that he was having sex with them. He even had one of these boys to living in his house.

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Wirz Addresses The Prisoners

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Prison, reported that Wirz in his thick Jewish German accent announced to the prison population: -

“Brizners, I return to you dese men so goot as I got dem.  You haf tried dem yourselves, and found dem guilty.  I haf had notting to do wit it.  I vash my hands of eferyting connected wit dem.  Do wit dem as you like, and may Gott haf mercy on you and on dem.  Garts, about face! Vorwarts, march!”

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Wirz Was tried And Hung

He was defended by a lawyer named Abraham Shaede, but finally hung.

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What Does It Matter?

It is just more of 'Altered Zionist History'. Wirz went from a private in the Confederate Army to Jefferson Davis' emissary in Paris. There was way more to the Wirz story than just some sadistic clown in charge of a POW camp.

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