The Essex Community Historical Society is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the ending of World War II, the 50th ...

He was the only Confederate officer executed for war crimes. His name was Henry Wirz — and the horrors he presided over at ...

Captured by the Confederates, he was shipped first to the infamous Libby Prison in Richmond, and then to Andersonville Prison in Georgia, where he died Sept. 16, 1864.

Memorial Day is the day we remember the U.S. military service members who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country.. They're never forgotten at Andersonville National Historic Site, one of 433 ...

Andersonville was the site of the largest prison in the Civil War, Camp Sumter. "The prison itself was not fully prepared to start bringing prisoners in," Sernaker said.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — An Anderson County man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to two different child sex crimes.. The Department of Justice’s U ...

Iowa PBS Presents. The Rock Island Civil War Prison. Special | 28m 2s Video has Closed Captions | CC. This documentary tells the story of the Rock Island Civil War Prison and how it acquired the ...

Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on Nov. 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.

“Relics of Andersonville Prison” (left) is an 1866 photograph of objects left behind by prisoners held at the notorious Andersonville Prison (bottom right) during the Civil War. The objects were ...

The episode of "Prison Chronicles" airs next week. Newswatch 16's Emily Kress sat down with Professor Gray ahead of his debut on the History Channel.