CHARGE OF CRUELTY AGAINST A CONFEDERATE OFFICER.I
... CHARGE OF CRUELTY AGAINST A CONFEDERATE OFFICER. The trial of Captain Henry Wirtz, who was for- merly in charge of the Confederate prison at Ander- sonville, has been opened at Washington before a military commission. All those accusations of cruelty pepetrated in Confederate prisons, which, in a pre- vious letter, I referred to as having been brought before the notice of a Sanitary Commission ...