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- GLC#
- GLC07271.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- circa July 1865
- Author/Creator
- Wirz, Henry, 1823-1865
- Title
- to Richard B. Winder
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 11 cm, Width: 16.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Wirz seeks information to implicate "the authorities at Richmond" on conditions at Andersonville, suggesting that he is being prosecuted so that "the big men, such as Cooper Seddon, Jeff Davis" can be prosecuted. Indicates that providing such information "I think it will save me, at any rate you." Passed to Winder's nearby prison cell, with Winder's unsigned autograph reply in pencil: "I knew of nothing except the reports from the prison, the reports of inspecting officers & newspaper statements." Written on scrap of lined paper.
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