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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
el stigma may be removed from the memory of Captain Wirz. At a meeting of the Louisiana Historica of that prison. In it justice will be done to Wirz's memory. It will be shown that Wirz did his bWirz did his best with the scant means at his command to alleviate the condition of the prisoners. He was also a member of a prison committee that waited upon Wirz several times, and he says that Wirz always grantWirz always granted reasonable requests if in his power.—Ed.] In the consideration of the Civil war, one of the spprison in the Confederate States. There Captain Henry Wirz was in command, and to him has been char in this prison, but it is hardly true that Captain Wirz was responsible for all of it, if for any. rt which tried and condemned Confederate Captain Henry Wirz was presided over by General Lewis Wallaurt that tried and condemned Confederate Captain Henry Wirz? The circumstances of the Confederate the prisoners all of their necessities. Captain Wirz was condemned and hung as a cruel felon.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Historical address of the former commander of Grimes Battery. (search)
al commanding the Department of Henrico, with this statement: Captain Thompson did not enter the Confederate army to become a Jack Ketch, a jailer or a prison keeper. General Gardner immediately sent for me and said: Captain, do you know the responsibility you have incurred by such an endorsement on an official paper? I said: I mean no disrespect; but I hope you will take up my cause and keep me from being a prison keeper. Through my general's influence the orders were revoked and Captain Henry Wirz was sent in my place. Friends, I cannot go over my military service in further detail. I was in Danville when General Lee surrendered, went in company with Mr. J. H. Sands, of Richmond, to Greensville, N. C. There General Beauregard advised us to go back to Dick Taylor. I said: If there is a spot of land where our flag flies, I will find it. We pushed on, but were captured and paroled in South Carolina, so ended my career as a Confederate soldier. My wife was a refugee in Ric
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
0; Company I, roster of, 228. Virginia Infantry, 4th regiment and 32d regiment at Sharpsburg, 250; 8th regiment, field officers of, 266. Virginia Convention of 1861, A remarkable body of men, 281. Wallace, General, Lew, 73. Warwick, Lieutenant A. D. 205 Weathersby, killed, Lieut. 1. Eugene, 241. Wellford, Colonel. 4. West Virginia, Cattle captured in, 355. White, Colonel E. V., General, 255. White, Colonel, Norborne Berkeley, 261. Wilkinson, Lieut., Henry, Death of, 47. Williams, John Jefferson, 221. Williams, John Skelton, :36. Williams, Colonel Lewis B, 329. Willis, Chaplain E. J ,253. Wilson, Captain J. A., 76. Winder, General John H., 85. Wirz, Captain, Henry, Stigma, removed from, memory of, 69. Wise, Captain, O. Jennings, 355; General Henry A, 354 Women of the Confederacy, what they saw and suffered, 191. Wooldridge, Colonel W. B., 259. Worsley, Philip Stanhope, his lines on General R. E Lee, 63 Wright, General Marcus J., 128.