Testimony from a Confederate private named John C. Bates stationed there for almost six months says "Although I am not an over sensitive man, I must confess I was shocked at the appearance of things.  The men were lying partially nude and dying and lousy, a portion of them in the sand and others upon boards, which had been stuck up on little props, pretty well crowded together. 

          "The rations the men were given were cooked at the prison hospital.  When I would go there the men would ask me for a bone.  I would give them whatever I could find in my disposition without robbing others."
 

Edward S. Kellogg (on shooting prisoners)- "I saw the cripple they call 'Chickamauga' shot; right at the southern gate."

"I saw other men shot too, while I was there.
 

A.G. Blair, a Union soldier, on inhumane treatment- Prosecuting Lawyer: "Did he (Wirz) ever say he would not give you rations?"

Blair: "I never heard that exact remark."

P.L.: "Anything like that?"

Blair: "Several days during the forepart of my imprisonment, there were no rations.  The report came from god authority that he (Wirz) was the cause of it, he being in charge of the camp"

          Henry Wirz was found guilty of war crimes.  He was sentenced to hang, which he did on November 10, 1865 at the Old Capital Prison yard.  The night before he was to be hung, he was offered a pardon on the conditions he would testify against Jefferson Davis.  Wirz refused the offer.  The day of his execution the crowd was openly glad that Wirz was going to die.  The crowd was chanting "remember Andersonville" as Wirz was sprung at 10:32 a.m.

          As Walt Whitman once said, "There are deeds, crimes that may be forgiven but this is not among them.  It steeps the perpetrators in blackest, escapeless, endless damnation." Henry Wirz was to be the only Confederate to be tried, convicted, and killed of  war crimes against the Union.