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Henry Wirz Trial: 1865

Suggestions For Further Reading



The Andersonville Diaty & Memoirs of Charles Hopkins. Kearny, N.J.: Belle Grove Publishing Co., 1988.

Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. New York: Vintage Books, 1986.

Hopkins, Charles. "Hell and the Survivor." American Heritage (October-November 1982): 78-93 (a portion of the book listed below).

McElroy, John. This lVas Andersonville. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957.

Ransom, John L. John Ransom's Andersonville Diary. Middlebury, Vt.: Paul S. Eriksson, 1986.

Rutherford, Mildred Lewis. Andersonville Prison and Captain Henry WVitz' Trial. Plains, Ga.: United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1983.

Stearns, Amos Edward. The Civil WVar Diary of Amos E. Stearns, a Prisoner at Andersonville. London:Associated University Presses, 1981.

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