Wirz Execution, lowering the body, November 10, 1865, artist's impression, detail

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Wirz Execution, lowering the body, November 10, 1865, artist's impression, detail

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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College

Scan date

07/25/2013

Notes

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 26, 2015

Depicted ContentHenry Wirz, former commandant of the Andersonville prison camp, is executed in Washington, D.C.

Image type

engraving

Original caption

Execution of Wirz - Lowering the Body

Source citation

Harper's Weekly Magazine, November 25, 1865, p. 748.

Source note

Cropped from the fuller image, also available here.

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