Members of the jury Captain Henry Wirz is guilty of war crimes, and should be sentenced to death unlike all the rest of the Confederate soldiers. Captain Henry Wirz has medical background of occupational therapy, and he allowed the prisoners of Andersonville survive in such horrible conditions. Captain Wirz also allowed a substantial amount of violence acts to happen.
Andersonville had no clean supply of water, and the water supply that they had people were bathing in it along with going to use the lavatory in it like it showed in the DVD. The amount food that they were given was not enough to keep them in a healthy living state either there were prisoners picking food up off the ground, among the ones who came in that had money and could smuggle food in somehow and ones who could buy it from the guards. They were put at risk for diseases such a scurvy, smallpox, and typhoid, along with the chance of having dehydration. …show more content…
The guards were to be a type of authority and Captain Wirz was to be constructing them to stop the violence. Since the violence was happening and the Raiders were allowed to do as they please with no stop of authority many people died from being jumped. The men that died, their death should be blamed on Captain Wirz and his negligence to provide a clean supply of water and the proper amount of food to the prisoners of Andersonville. He also should be blamed for all the violence that occurred in the camp. With Captain Wirz having medical background and having the authority over the guards of the camp ladies and gentlemen of the jury do you think that the prisoners that had to live through Andersonville starving and fighting for their lives go down without being