The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-11-11

guard, they assembled the scatfOld. The
prisoner was then seated. The scaffold
was 12 feet square, and % feet to the top
beam, with a trap IL feet from the
ground. The guard consisted Of the
18th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and
a detachment Of the Veteran Reserve
Corpse, under command of Capt. Wal
bridge, military super intendent OF the
old capitol prison. There were several
hundred spectators present beside the
military, civilians having been admitted
on special passes. Amid profound ST.
lence Provost Marshall Russell proceeded
to read the order of the War Department
founded on the verdict of the court
martial which tried the prisoner
He was charged and convicted of COM
biniug, confederating and conspiring
with Jefferson Davis, j. A. Seldom, How
ell Cobb, John HI. Wiuder, Richard B.
Winder. Isaiah White, W. S. Winder,
Rev, r r. Stevenson, - Kerr, Sol Hop
pie, steward at Andersonville, Jas. .sDun-
can, Wesley w. Turner. Benz. Hariis and
j others-whOse names are unknown, and
who were then engaged in armed rebel
lion against the United States, malicious
! ly, traitorously and in violation of the
laws of war, to impair and injure the
health and destroy the lives, by subject
ing to certain and great suffering by con-
fining in unheelthy and unwholesome
quarters, by exposing the inclemency
of the weather, and to the burning lsun
of summer; by compelling the use of i'm
pare water, and by furnishing insufti-
cient and unwholesonie food, to large
numbers of Federal prisoners, to-wit:
Number of about $4,000, held as prisoners
of war at Andersonville. within the lines
of the so-called Confederate States, OH OF
before the 9th of March, 1864, and at
divers times between that day aud the
| 10th of April, 1865, to the end that the
| armies of the United States might be
weakened and impaired. and that the in
surgents engaged in armed rebellion
against the United States might be aid
ed and comforted, etc, etc.
The order also states that the prisoner
was found guilty of the second charge,
namely: Murder in violation of the laws
and custom of war; and guilty of all spe-
cifications, excepting the 4th. 10th and
18th, which are therein set forth; that
he killed a prisoner by shooting him
with revolver; that he ordered senti-
mel to fire upon another with revolver.
and that he shot another with revolver
so that he died The order concludes as
follows: The Court do, therefore, SEN
tence him, Henry Wirz, to be hanged by
the neck until he he dead, at such time
and place US the President of the United
States may direct, two-thirds OF the
members of the Court concurring herein;
and the Court also lind the prisoner
Henry Wirz, guilty of having caused the
death, in the manner as alleged in speci-
ficotion H. charge 2, of three prisoners
of war, in his custody and soldiers of the
United States; one occurring on or about
the 18th day of May, 1864 another oc-
curing on o. about the ] 1th day of July,
1864; another occurring on or about the
! 1st day of September, 1864, but which
finding, as here expressed, has not, nor
did not enter into the sentence OF the
Court, as before given,
Second, The proceedings, findings, and
sentence of the foregoing case having
been submitted to the President of the
United States the following are his
orders.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Nov. B, 1865.
The proceedings and sentence in Wirzs
case are approved, and it is ordered that
the sentence be carried into execution
by the officer commanding, Capt. Wash
on Friday, the 10th day of November,
1866, between the hours of o'clock in.
the morning and ~ o'clock, noon.
Signed, ANDREW JOHNSON,
President of the L. S.
Third, Mai. Gen. C.. c Angar, com
manding the department of Washington
is commanded to cause the foregoing
sentence of Henry Wirz to be duly exc
cuted in accordance with the Presidents
order.
Fourth, The military commission of
which Maj Gen. Lewis Wallace, of the
United States Volunteers Is President,
is hereby dissolved. By command OF the
President of the United States.
[Sigued f. d. TOWNSEND.
Asst Adj't Gen.
When the reading Of the order was
completed, Wirz conversed with those
on the platform with seeming conf
dence and self possession, and it was re-
marked that he had a smiling counte-
nance. To his spiritual advisers he said:
IL am innocent have to die, but can
die like a man, l hope In future l
have nothing more to say. His legs and
! lanUS were tleu, tue hoooe PloSSou
around his neck, and the black cap
placed over his face He stood erect,
without faltering, evidently having
nerved himself for the solemn event.
Those on the platform retired, leaving
the doomed man in the centre of the
structure. After few moments of pro-
found quiet the drop, at preconcerted
signal fell The sound that accompan-
led, having reached the promiscuous
crowd outside of the old capital grounds,
but who were not iSiledged to view
the execution, was responded to by re-
pcated shouts of appreciation The con
vict. direct after falling, was considera-
blyl con vulsed in his legs, but the agony
was soon over He HING about fifteen
minutes and then was cut down. His
BODY was laidlupon stretcherand carried
to the prison. where it was placed i'll
coffin. and transferred to father Boyle
for interment His neck was broken by
the fall. The whole proceeding occu-
pied about three iourths of an hour
War Declared Retween spntn and
Chilli.
New YORK. Nov. 10.-By the arrival of
the Ocean Queen we have Panama dates
to the October 3lst
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