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File Details: AMKIm, 750 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 42.8 Mb

Image ID: AMKI

Credit:

by Gardner (Alexander)

Date:

1865.11.10

Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.

Equipment:

bayonet; gallows; long gun

Locations & Lines:

Washington DC; District of Columbia

Military Units:

CS Army; US Army

Persons:

Wirz (Heinrich H.)

Structures & Establishments:

Old Capitol Prison (Washington DC)

Sources:

Chrysler Museum of Art; Library of Congress

Execution of Captain Wirz, the Keeper of Andersonville Prison (Reading the Warrant.) [Gardner Co. cabinet card].

Katz, Witness To An Era, p198 says: Reading the execution warrant against Wirz.

Gardner No. 7752.

Etched onto negative: No. 752. 7752