Henry Wirz
✓ Source-basedfallingSwiss-born Confederate officer in the American Civil War
United StatesLived 1823 to 1865 · aged 41Captain Henry Wirz was a Confederate States Army officer, doctor, and convicted war criminal best known for commanding Andersonville Prison during the American Civil War.
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![Historic marker for Wirz at Andersonville, Georgia. The claim in the marker that guards died at the same rate as prisoners is incorrect.[14]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/21-01-171-wirz.jpg/1280px-21-01-171-wirz.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Historic marker for Wirz at Andersonville, Georgia. The claim in the marker that guards died at the same rate as prisoners is incorrect.[14]
Wirz hears his death warrant at the scaffold near the U.S. Capitol
Wirz's execution moments after the trapdoor was sprung
Wirz's grave marker at Mount Olivet Cemetery, denoting him as a hero and a martyr
The Wirz Monument in AndersonvilleAbout this person
Captain Henry Wirz was a Confederate States Army officer, doctor, and convicted war criminal best known for commanding Andersonville Prison during the American Civil War. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Wirz immigrated to the United States in 1849 after being exiled from the canton of Zurich following a conviction of embezzlement and fraud. He worked in a Massachusetts factory for five years before moving south to Kentucky to begin a career in medicine; specializing in homeopathy, Wirz divided his time between the two states. In 1854, he moved to Louisiana with his newly-married wife and her two daughters, working as an overseer on a slave plantation.
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