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| branch = | serviceyears = 1861–65 | rank =35px Captain | commands =Andersonville Prison | battles = American Civil War * Battle of Seven Pines | awards = | laterwork = }} Heinrich Hartmann Wirz better known as Henry Wirz (November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was a Swiss-born Confederate officer in the American Civil War. He is best known for his command of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prisoner-of-war camp near Andersonville, Georgia; he was tried and executed after the war for conspiracy and murder relating to his command of the camp. ==Career and family== Born in Zurich, Switzerland, to Hans Caspar Wirz and Sophie Barbara Philipp, Henry Wirz received elementary and secondary education. He aspired to become a physician, but his family did not possess funds to pay for medical school. Instead, he became a merchant and worked in Zurich and Torino, Italy. Wirz, who had married Emilie Oschwald in 1845 and had two children, received a four-year prison term in April 1847 for inability to return money that he borrowed. The court commuted his sentence to 12-year forcible emigration. His wife refused to emigrate and obtained a divorce in 1853.〔Arch Fredric Blakey. (Wirz, Henry ), American National Biography Online, February 2000. Retrieved November 25, 2015.〕 In 1848 Wirz went to Russia and the next year to the United States, where he found employment in a factory in Lawrence, Massachusetts. After five years he moved to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and worked as a doctor's assistant. He tried to establish his own homeopathic medicine practice in Cadiz, Kentucky, and also worked as superintendent of a water cure clinic in Northampton, Massachusetts.〔Tomes, R., & Smith, B. G. (1862). (The war with the South: A history of the late rebellion, with biographical sketches of leading statesmen and distinguished naval and military commanders, etc ). New York: Virtue & Yorston, Volume III, p. 685.〕 In 1854 he married a Methodist widow named Elizabeth Wolfe, who stayed by his side to the end of his life. Along with her two daughters, they moved to Louisiana, where his wife in 1855 gave birth to their daughter Cora. In Louisiana Wirz worked for Levin Marshall as a plantation overseer and physician. By 1861 he had successfully navigated his transition to a new life in America. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Wirz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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