Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison
Lectures in History
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🗓️ 24 July 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:52.7 | On lectures and history, Sunni at Buffalo professor Carol Emberton teaches a class about Andersonville, |
| 0:59.3 | the Confederate Civil War military prison where 13,000 Union soldiers died, |
| 1:04.3 | and the post-war trial of its commander, Henry Wirtz. |
| 1:07.3 | She also discusses the halt of the prisoner exchange program toward the end of the war and how the worth's trial was used as a precedent for later war crimes proceedings. |
| 1:15.8 | Her class is about an hour. |
| 1:19.4 | All right, well, welcome everyone today. |
| 1:23.8 | We're going to be talking about Henry Wirthes, who was the commandant of Andersonville Prison Camp, |
| 1:30.1 | which you may have heard of. |
| 1:31.7 | It's one of the most notorious prisoner of war camps, sort of in the history of modern warfare. |
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