Captain Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison

Download or read book Captain Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison written by R. Fred Ruhlman and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Fred Ruhlman goes beyond merely examining the trial of Henry Wirz--which resulted in Wirz's execution--and presents his story and that of Andersonville in an engaging and thoughtful treatment. Removing the layers of mythology that have attached to Wirz over the years, Ruhlman offers a close examination of Wirz and the harsh politics and ideology, Northern and Southern, that swirled around the ending of the nation's greatest conflict. Neither a martyr nor a murderer, Wirz was an imperfect, sometimes misguided, and always misunderstood soldier caught in the vortex of circumstance while attempting to do his duty.