Was the commandant of andersonville prison camp. Its one of the most notorious camps in the mihistory of moder warfare. It was in the southwest of georgia and well talk about hanging henry wirz. Wirz was hanged for his role in perpetuating according to the federal government mistreatment and murder at that camp and he was one of the first individuals in the modern era to be tried for war crimes and henry wirzs trial in the fall of 1865 set the precedent for more recent war crimes trials, most notably the nuremberg trials of nazi perpetrators after world war ii, the american the allied prosecutors who were preparing for those prosecutions in nuremberg actually studied the wirz trial and particularly his defense so that they could prepare for what they anticipated the nazi defense would be and called it the wirz defense which was basically, you know, i was only following orders. Thats the typical defense and they used henry wirzs trial to help prepare far in 1945. So this is a really imp
And youre watching booktv on cspan2. Heres our primetime lineup for tonight. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Up next on booktv, after words, with guest host james swanson, author and urged fellow. This week James Mcpherson and his latest book embattled rebel Jefferson Davis as commander in chief. Into the acclaimed historian presents confederate president Jefferson Davis as an astute military strategist whose failures, he argues, are not the reason the confederacy lost the civil war. This program is about one hour. Host jim, lets start at the beginning. Its november 1860, the republicans won the election but lincoln is president elect. Who is Jefferson Davis in the fall of 1860 . Guest to Jefferson Davis and the fall of 1860 is a senator from mississippi. He has served in that capacity off and on for about eight years, interrupted in the middle 1850s by for years as secretary of war under president franklin pierce. He was one of the most prominent of the southern senators.
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Weekends on cspan two are an intellectual feast. Every saturday, American History tv documents america story, and on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan 2 comes from these Television Companies and more, including charter communications. Broadband is a force for empowerment. That is why charter has invested billns building infrastructure, upgrading technology, empowering opportunity, and in communities big and small. Charter is connecting us. Charter communications, along with these Television Companies, support cspan 2 as a public service. It is my pleasure tonight to bring up from our bureau in richmond, virginia my friend doug crenshaw. Both of them have worked at the battlefield down there. Doug is a volunteer. Bird is one of the historians for many years. Both of them are well familiar with 1862 and 1864. Both of them have several books in a back. Their most recent is called embattled capital, a guy to richmond during the civil
Time on july 20, 1861 after addressing the Congress Though on the hot morning of july 21, he could stand the suspense no longer. He knew the combined armies of johnston worked with hunting the enemy near the Railroad Junction of manassas. He commandeered a special train and truck northward. Arriving at manassas in the midafternoon, he wrote towards the south. He was dismayed by what he first encountered strugglers and wounded men with tales of defeat from the, discarded weapons, damaged equipment in the battlefield. Davis tried to rally the stragglers. I am president davis and he shouted. Follow me back to the field. Some of them data. By did. By the time he reached the headquarters where he found them sending reinforcements to the front it was clear that they had won the battle. Union troops were in the retreat. Davis went further forward in the justice soldiers cheered him to the echo. That evening he met with johnston at their headquarters. Davis wanted to organize a pursuit and he