Soldier springing trap,Henry Wirz,scaffold,hangings,prisons,Washington DC,1865

Title: [Washington, D.C. Soldier springing the trap; men in trees and Capitol dome beyond]
Creator(s): Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer
Date Created/Published: [1865 November 10]
Summary: Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, November 1865.
Notes:
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0857
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Photographer: Alexander Gardner.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4181.
Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)
Subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Detention facilities.
Wirz, Henry.
Capitols.
Hangings.
Prisons.
United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
Wet collodion negatives.
Bookmark /cwp2003001033/PP/
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