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The Andersonville Trial is a 1959 hit Broadway play by Saul Levitt. It was later adapted into a television production and presented as part of the PBS anthology series Hollywood Television Theatre.
May 17, 1970 · The Andersonville Trial: Directed by George C. Scott. With Cameron Mitchell, William Shatner, Jack Cassidy, Wright King. A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Aug 3, 2007 · In 1959 dramatist Saul Levitt wrote the play The Andersonville Trial, which was produced that same year by William Darrid, Daniel Hollywood, and Eleanore Saidenberg. The award-winning play recounts the trial of Captain Henry Wirz, the Swiss doctor who commanded the Confederate garrison at Andersonville.
Jul 20, 2017 · A military commission of nine prominent Union officers convened Wirz’s tribunal in the U.S. Capitol building August 21, 1865. The event was documented voluminously; the court transcript comprised 815 pages of the Congressional Record, and the trial’s written record was 2,301 pages.
Sep 27, 2022 · Synopsis: A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Captain Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia, which saw 14,000 Union prisoners die from cruel neglect. From a play by Saul Levitt.
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.