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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.
- Saul Levitt (play)
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.
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Sep 27, 2022 · Watch a classic TV drama based on the 1865 war-crimes trial of Captain Henry Wirz, who ran the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia. Starring Cameron Mitchell, William Shatner, Jack Cassidy and more.
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.
Aug 3, 2007 · Learn about the historical and artistic works inspired by Andersonville, the most notorious prison camp of the Civil War. Explore the play and film adaptations of the trial of Captain Henry Wirz, the only man executed for war crimes, and the miniseries based on the novel by MacKinlay Kantor.
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Lt. Col. N.P Chipman is the Army prosecutor, Otis Baker the defense attorney and Gen. Lew Wallace the judge in the trial of Henry Wirz, the Confederate officer who ran a prisoner of war camp in Andersonville, which saw 14,000 Union prisoners die from cruel neglect.
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
