Chipman

1866 · Best.-Nr. 86342 — 1866. New York: Harper & Brothers 1866. First edition. New York: Harper & Brothers 1866. First edition. The Andersonville War Crimes Trial: A Harrowing Civil War Narrative Spencer Ambrose. Chipman Norton Parker 1834-1924. A Narrative of Andersonville Drawn from the Evidence Elicited on the Trial of Henry Wirz the Jailer. With the Argument of Col. N.P. Chipman Judge Advocate. New York: Harper & Brothers 1866. Octavo. xiii 15-272 pp. Frontispiece. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt stamped spine. Beveled edges. Worn with scuffing to extremities. Internally clean. A good copy. $150. First edition. A harrowing 1866 historical and legal account featuring the closing legal arguments of Judge Advocate Col. Norton Parker Chipman in the trial of Confederate Captain Henry Wirz commandant of the notorious Camp Sumter the military stockade in Andersonville Georgia where over 12000 Union prisoners died from starvation disease and abuse. Following the conclusion of the Civil War Wirz was arrested and tried before a special Union military commission presided over by Judge Advocate Col. N.P. Chipman. Wirz was charged with conspiring to impair the lives and injure the health of Union prisoners as well as multiple counts of murder in violation of the laws of war and executed by hanging in Washington D.C. in November 1865 making him one of the few Confederate officials legally executed for war crimes. unknown