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Henry Wirz: The Only Confederate Officer to Be Executed for War Crimes After the American Civil War
What does it take to be labeled a war criminal? For Henry Wirz, commanding one of the worst POW camps in history was enough.
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14 Brutal Civil War Movies That Are Way Too Realistic And Very Hard To Watch
A story not often told in Civil War pictures, "Andersonville" expresses the very real struggles of those who didn't die on ...
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The Civil War Prisoner Camp That Became a Place of Horror
The Confederate Civil War prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was an utter nightmare for the many soldiers held within. It was dangerously overcrowded, rife with disease, and food and medical ...
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Kids in the Civil War
As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18 ... They endured the horrors of Andersonville, a Confederate prison in which thousands of Union men died of starvation and disease.