Gravesite of Henry Wirz (Washington, D.C.)

USA / Maryland / Colmar Manor / Washington, D.C.

Commander of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prisoner of war camp in Andersonville, Georgia.
Nearly 14,000 Union prisoners died during his relatively brief tenure. (April 1864-May 1865)
He was tried as a war criminal and hanged in Washington, DC, on November 10, 1865.
Headstone and "Southern Cross of Honor" erected by The Sons of Confederate Veterans,
Jefferson Davis Camp No. 305, Maryland
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Coordinates:   38°54'34"N   76°58'48"W
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