The Trial of Henry Wirz: Bibliography and Selected Links
Books
Ransom, John. Andersonville Diary. (A vivid account of life in Andersonville, as reported in the diary of a 20-year-old Union soldier and prisoner.)
Spencer, Ambrose. A Narrative of Andersonville, Drawn from the Evidence Elicted on the Trial of Henry Wirz (1866). (Contemporary account of life in prison and the Wirz trial.)
Chipman, N. P. (pictured above). The Andersonville Prison Trial: The Trial of Captain Wirz (1911). (Author was a prosecutor in the case and is his response to attempts to discredit the Commission's verdict.Includes an extensive collection of primary documents as well as a number of excerpts fromt the trial testimony.)
Marvel, William. Andersonville: The Last Depot (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2014)(best account of the history of Andersonville prison.)
Futch, Ovid L. History of Andersonville Prison (Univ. of Florida Press, 2011)(Author uses firs-hand accounts to piece together a history of Andersonville prison).
Page, James Madison. The True Story of Andersonville Prison: A Defense of Major Henry Wirz (first published in 1908).(Quite biographical; is what it says: a defense of Wirz).
Kantor, MacKinley. Andersonville (1955)(One of the greatest of Civil War novels, Andersonville won the Pulitizer Prise for Literature. Partially told from the point of view of Henry Wirz.)
Documents
The Trial of Henry Wirz. (850-page collection of records of the Wirz trial in pdf form.)
Video
Andersonville: The Great Untold Story of the Civil War (1996, 167 minutes).
The Andersonville Trial (1970, 150 minutes)(dramatization of trial based on play by Saul Levitt).
Links
The Trial of Henry Wirz (Military Legal Resources).
The Horrors of Andersonville:The Trials of Henry Wirz (History Channel documentary, 2006).
How the Trial and Death of Henry Wirz Shaped Post-Civil War America (Smithsonian Magazine).
The Trial of Henry Wirz (National Park Service).
Harpers Weekly Reports Events of 1865.