Andersonville

Andersonville was a confederate military prison. It had the most men and held more man than it was supposed to. Andersonville only existed for 14 months but it really caused many deaths. Almost 13,000 out of more than 45,000 died from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding,or other harmful things. This was because the camp did not provide basic needs. The water there was used for everything; the drank the water ,bathed in it and emptied their wastes into it. Henry Wirz was the prison’s commandant but since the soldiers did not like him they did do what he ordered. Some of the things he told them to do were things like feeding the prisoners and trying
 to give them basic needs. But since they did not follow the prisoners became angry and the did not like Wirz either. He had no power over them. When the people found out how the people were treated there, Henry Wirz was tried and found guilty by a military tribunal. He was then hanged in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 1865. Henry Wirz was the only person executed for war crimes during the Civil War.