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Sized, cropped, and adjusted by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 28, 2011.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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Civil War Photographic Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
Cropped from a much larger image of the Wirz execution. The noose is adjusted around the neck of Henry Wirz.