"Captain Henry Wirz, the Confederate officer in immediate command
of the prison stockade at Andersonville, was, in the year 1865,
tried by a Military Commission, at Washington, D.C., and convicted
and executed for his brutality to the prisoners under his control."
Samuel John Mills Andrews had been a prisoner at Andersonville and
was one of the many witnesses at that trial. Hence he obtained a
copy of the transcripts, which he published in a small book in
1870. His introductory pages contain a personal narrative of the
horrors he endured there. Helen Cox Tregillis revives this historic
work and adds some background information about Andrews and Wirz in
her introduction. Particularly heinous was Wirz's sanctioning of a
trial among the prison gangs, which resulted in the hanging of six
inmates. Mrs. Tregillis has also added maps showing the movement of
Andrews' regiment (the 17th Illinois). A bibliography and a new
index of names and places round out this book. The index includes
the names of Andrews' fellow soldiers in Company E.
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