Confederate Captain Henry Wirz (1823-1865), commandant of the
infamous prison camp Andersonville during the War Between the States
You may have heard about the atrocities at Andersonville prison during the War Between the States — but I bet you never heard that vaccination was one of those atrocities. Which is most convenient.
In our day, it is clear to those who are awake that vaccination is used as deliberate tool of murder. Even many who are pro-vaccine recognize this about the COVID shot.
(Which shows, by the way, that even if you support vaccination in theory, you really can’t trust that those behind vaccination are not deliberately trying to poison you. You never know what ingredients they are actually using. Do you trust the government and big businesses — as corrupt and self-serving as they are?)
It is not hard to conceive of using shots, such as vaccines, to clandestinely harm others. It is an easy way to get away with murder without being discovered. And even in discovery, in the case of vaccines, it is an easy way to avoid being brought to justice. After all, it is politically incorrect to even question the safety of vaccines.
Naturally, there are instances throughout history where vaccination may have been deliberately used for malevolent reasons.
But those who intend to harm someone via a so-called medical procedure, such as vaccination, should be tried and punished — even with the death penalty.
This brings us to the aftermath of the War Between the States — and the first and only trial and conviction I know of for vaccine murder.
After the war, a Confederate Captain named Henry Wirz was tried and executed for war crimes committed against thousands of Union prisoners at the infamous Andersonville prison (or Camp Sumter).
The sentence against Wirz, the commandant of the prison, states that he “did combine, confederate, and conspire with” others to
maliciously, traitorously, and in violation of the laws of war, to impair and injure the health and to destroy the lives, by subjecting to torture and great suffering, by confining in unhealthy and unwholesome quarters, by exposing to the inclemency of winter and to the dews and burning suns of summer, by compelling the use of impure water, and by furnishing insufficient and unwholesome food, of large numbers of federal prisoners, to wit, the number of about forty -five thousand soldiers …
House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 805.
One of the stated methods by Wirz to “injure the health and to destroy the lives” was the use of poisoned vaccination. Regarding this, the sentence states that
the said Wirz, still pursuing his wicked purpose, and still aiding in carrying out said conspiracy, did cause to be used for the pretented purposes of vaccination impure and poisonous vaccine matter, which said impure and poisonous matter was then and there, by the direction and order of said Wirz, maliciously, cruelly, and wickedly, deposited in the arms of many of said prisoners, by reason of which large numbers of them lost the use of their arms, and many of them were so injured that they soon thereafter died ; all of which he, the said Henry Wirz, well knew and maliciously intended, and, in aid of the then existing rebellion against the United States, with the view to assist in weakening and impairing the armies of the United States, and in furtherance of the said conspiracy, and with the full knowledge, consent, and connivance of his co-conspirators aforesaid, he, the said Wirz, then and there did.
House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 807.
The trial’s Judge Advocate said “the inoculating of prisoners of war with poisonous vaccine matter … when compared with other specific acts of cruelty, seems to me the most revolting in the whole catalogue.” (Ibid, 775).
Read documentation of the entire trial here. For relevant info on this subject, do a keyword search in this document for “vaccination.” Includes more witness testimony than we include below.
Some eyewitness testimonies of vaccination harming and killing prisoners at Andersonville
Some of the eyewitness testimonies include the following:
Thomas Hall (prisoner)
I saw men vaccinated. After vaccination the men had big ulcers and big sores on their arms, twice as large as a silver half dollar ; the sores were all rotted, and maggots got into them, so that the arms had to be cut off, and a great many of them died.House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 149.
Joseph R. Achuff (prisoner)
I knew a good many more than half a dozen who lost the use of their arm or lost their lives from vaccination. Some of the men got the small-pox. I believe there were some dozen cases. These men were carried out to the small-pox hospital. After that a fellow came around with vaccine matter, and every man who was vaccinated there lost the use of his arm or lost his life.
House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 167.
P. Vincent Halley (prisoner)
I saw cases of vaccination ; I saw, I think , about 150 cases of vaccination, and in many of them after vaccination gangrene set in, and the sores were about three inches in diameter. They varied from an inch to four inches in diameter ; in some instances men’s arms had to be amputated from that cause ; some of the cases of amputation recovered and some did not ; I do not remember anything about the proportion of recoveries.
House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 160.
Samuel J. M. Andrews (prisoner)
I saw a good many cases of vaccination while there ; I should think two or three hundred ; almost all that I saw bad large sores upon their arms, and some on other parts of their body, from the size of a dollar to that of the palm of my hand ; some had two on the same arm , some one on each arm ; almost invariably, so far as I knew, amputation was the result ; death was the final result in almost all cases of amputation ; I have known instances in which men suffering from these sores became insane ; I have seen two or three such cases ; I observed one in particular ; the man was in the same tent as I was in the hospital ; he seemed to be completely insane ; his agony and suffering was so intense that that seemed to be the cause of his insanity – the suffering which he endured from these sores.
House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 390.
E. D. Eiland (Surgeon in Charge 1st Division)
I had in my ward cases of vaccination. I had what I call vaccine sores ; they were in the arms usually ; sometimes in the axilla . They were the result of vaccination, and had every symptom of ” secondary” syphilis, in my opinion. A person can be impregnated with that disease by inoculation ; it is so put down in medical history. I should say I have seen two or three hundred cases of that description in the course of my stay there. The sores were as large as my hand, and were produced by vaccination. In my opinion, the matter used must have been impure. I considered it as poisonous, judging from the effects and results ; there was every appearance of “ secondary ” syphilis in the sores. Amputations were necessary from that cause, and I do not remember of one living ; there may have been, but I do not remember such a case at the present time. I have seen men die from the effects of that vaccination in the months of June, July , and August ; more particularly, 1864. I have had conversations with the surgeons about that matter, and some of them have admitted that, in their opinion, it was poisonous matter.
House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 45, 46
Oliver B. Fairbanks (prisoner)
I saw cases of vaccination . I saw several hundred who had been vaccinated. Large sores originated from the effects of poisonous matter. They were the size of my hand, and were on the outside of the arms, and also underneath in the armpits. I have seen holes eaten under the arms where I could put my fist in. … I was vaccinated myself. I was at the south gate one morning when the operation was being performed. While I was standing there looking on, a surgeon came to me and requested me to roll up my sleeves, as he was going to perform the operation on me. I told him I could not consent to such an operation. He called for a file of guards, and I was taken to Captain Wirz’s headquarters. Arriving there, one of the guards went in, and directly Captain Wirz came out of his office raging … He drew his revolver and presented it within three inches of my face, and wanted to know why I refused to obey his orders. … I told him, “Captain, you are aware that the matter with which I would be vaccinated is poisonous, and therefore I cannot consent to an operation which I know will prove fatal to my life.” He flirted his revolver around and stated that … the sooner I would die the sooner he would get rid of me. He ordered the guards to take me away and have a ball and chain put on me till I would consent to the operation. I was taken to where the chain -gang was, and a ball and chain were brought and riveted to my leg, and I was turned into the stockade to wear it until I would consent to the operation. I wore it for about two weeks, when I consented to submit to the operation. I had noticed upon several occasions that the surgeons were very careless in performing the operation; their instruments were dull, and they applied the matter in a very careless way, allowing the patients to go away as soon as they had put the matter in , and without bandaging the arms in any way. I concluded that I could wash the matter out, and, with that calculation, I consented to the operation. As soon as it was performed I went immediately to the brook and took a piece of soap and rubbed the spot and wrung it, and thereby saved myself. The vaccine matter did not work in my system. I experienced no effects from it. Up to that time none had recovered from the effects of vaccination . After that I informed several others, who saved themselves in the same manner.
House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 156, 157.
Frank Maddox (prisoner)
I saw Captain Wirz in the graveyard with the surgeons two or three times ; they were laughing over the effects of the vaccination one day ; the doctor had been examining, and had cut some bodies open , and had sawed some heads open ; in some cases a green streak from the arm had extended to the body ; they were laughing about its killing the men so ; I mean the surgeons and Captain Wirz …
House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 178.
Lewis Dyer (black prisoner)
I heard the surgeons make remarks in regard to what they were doing with the Yankees. I heard them talk about it at nights ; one would say, “I poisoned so many Yankees to-day ;” one would say he poisoned five, and another ten . They would be laughing and drinking and talking that way over it . … I have not heard anything more than some of the doctors say they were going to vaccinate all the Yankees there, and kill them off, or take their arms off. They were the same doctors I would hear laughing about poisoning the prisoners. … I have noticed the result of the vaccination ; I have seen men going around who had been vaccinated , and two or three days after all their arms would be eaten out, and their arms would have to be taken off.
House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 409.
Benjamin F. Dilley (prisoner, clerk at Captain Wirz’s headquarters)
I once asked Doctor White to vaccinate me. Doctor White did not say that the vaccine matter was impure, but he gave me to understand that it was ; his words indicated that he thought it was impure. He told me to wait awhile; that he expected to get some matter from a child in the country, and that if I would wait for it he would vaccinate me. I think that was in May. That was not prior to the small-pox being prevalent there ; the small- pox was prevailing there at that time. … I have seen men who had been vaccinated; they had sores on their arms about the size of that inkstand or larger. That was about the time I had this conversation. It was sure death for a man to be vaccinated there if it took. His arm would have to be amputated, and I know of only one successful case of amputation ; there was a bet of $150 on that. It was the case of a young doctor who had charge of a man. I think he bet $100 that the man would live, and $50 that he would save the man’s arm. He won the money. He supplied the man with a new sponge and a wash -basin, and attended him himself, for three or four weeks. That was the only case I saw of a cure, and I saw many a case there.
House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 675.
The Judge Advocate (prosecutor)
You will remember that the surgeons who have testified through their reports, and upon the witness stand, have spoken largely of hospital gangrene that prevailed at Andersonville as a consequence of vaccination ; and indeed, as they have universally testified, as a consequence of even the slightest abrasion of the skin, in cases of vaccination, however, resulting in appalling mortality.
Vaccination with genuine virus has never before resulted in such frightful mortality.
House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 776, 777.
Picture reads: Arm of Federal Prisoner. Hospital Gangrene. Attacked, small abrasion
near elbow. Amputation — Death. Andersonville, Georgia, September 20, 1864.
One witness argues that Dr. White ordered vaccination, not Captain Wirz
Augustus Moesner (prisoner, office clerk for Captain Wirz) (cross-examined by the Judge Advocate):
By the Judge Advocate:
I say that at one time a man who refused to be vaccinated was brought to Captain Wirz .
Q. Repeat the reply which Captain Wirz made.
A. The man refused to be vaccinated by the doctor, and Captain Wirz told him that he had nothing to do with this matter ; that it was an order of the chief surgeon ; that he would not care a damn if they would die of small-pox if they would not be vaccinated, but that it was an order of Chief Surgeon White, and that it had to be done. His manner was violent at the time. The surgeon took the man to Captain Wirz. The man refused to be vaccinated, and the surgeon brought him over to Captain Wirz — to tell Captain Wirz that the man refused ; to ask Captain Wirz what should be done in the case.
Q. If the surgeon had everything to do with the case and Captain Wirz nothing, why did the surgeon bring the man to Captain Wirz?
A. I don’t know. It may be that he brought him there to have him punished ; I don’t know. Nothing of that kind was said ; he only said that the man refused to be vaccinated, and Captain Wirz cursed the man in the manner he always was talking. The vaccination was not by his order ; it was Surgeon White who wanted all the men to be vaccinated.
Q. Do you know anything about Surgeon White’s orders on that subject?
A. I heard Dr. White say to Captain Wirz —
Q. Do you know anything about the orders except what you heard Dr. White say to Captain Wirz? Did you ever hear any order ?
A. Yes, sir ; Captain Wirz gave the order that men who lately came into the stockade should stay in line and the doctors should examine them to see whether they were vaccinated or not.
Q. Captain Wirz and not Dr. White gave the order on that subject ?
A. He gave it, on the request of Dr. White, that the surgeons should examine the men who came in lately to see if they were vaccinated or not, and to take out for vaccination those who had not been vaccinated. That began when the camp began to be very much crowded-in June or July.
Q. Then always after that, when prisoners came, they were examined by the surgeons to see whether they were vaccinated or not?
A. It should be done, but the order was not carried out very strictly. I do not know how often it was carried out ; I was not inside the stockade. I do not know a single instance where the surgeons were sent for by Captain Wirz to come and examine prisoners who had just been brought ; they were examined in the stockade or at the south gate.
Q. How do you know that? Did you go there?
A. I saw it from Captain Wirz’s office. After they left our headquarters I
did not watch them, but I saw them. I would happen to see them once in a while. I do not pretend to know whether that was always done. I heard that the order was not very well carried out from the confederate sergeants. I did not in any single instance see vaccination performed. I do not know anything about it .House of Representatives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 555.
Opposition to the verdict
Some dispute the verdict in Wirz’s trial, and hold that he is innocent of deliberately murdering with vaccination.
Probably the majority of southerners at the time believed that Wirz’s trial was but a kangaroo court, a means of revenge of the north upon the south. It is of course true that in war, the victors are very capable of unjust actions against the defeated.
And of course, witnesses can be bribed or intimidated to give false testimony. But at this point, I have seen no proof that this has occurred. And it would be hard to pull such off with so many witnesses.
At the very least, it seems, someone — if not Wirz — was deliberately poisoning the prisoners with vaccination. But if not Wirz, it was still his duty to take notice of how prisoners were dying and take action to prevent it.
Nevertheless, here are a couple dissenting views.
General Robert E. Lee was one who objected to the verdict, writing the following to a one Dr. Joseph Jones:
Dr. JOSEPH JONES :
Dear Sir – I am much obliged to you for the copy of your Researches on Spurious Vaccination, which I will place in the library of the Lexington College. I have read with attention your examination of the charge made by the United States Military Commission, that the Confederate surgeons poisoned the Federal prisoners at Andersonville with vaccine matter. I believe every one who has investigated the afflictions of the Federal prisoners is of the opinion that they were incident to their condition as prisoners of war, and to the distressed state of the whole Southern country, and I fear they were fully shared by the Confederate prisoners in Federal prisons.Rev. J. William Jones, Confederate View of the Treatment of Prisoners. Compiled from Official Records and Other Documents. (Richmond, VA: Southern Historical Society, 1876), 178.
The following excerpt from a book on Andersonville published in 1892 argues against the idea that there was deliberate vaccine murder at the camp. Its appeal to Andersonville’s medical records is quite unconvincing — especially when lined up against so many witnesses. (Medical numbers can be easily fudged, including regarding vaccination.) But it also admits to the dangers of vaccination, as even in the official medical records, four people died from vaccination:
Among the victims of Wirz’s alleged cruelty, Colonel Chipman counted two hundred and fifty who lost their lives in consequence of the use of impure vaccine matter. Vaccination was ordered in May, 1861, owing to the presence of small -pox patients in the hospital, which was then within the stockade. There was no compulsion, or at least no stringent measures were taken to find out who had or had not been vaccinated. There is no doubt but that some of those who were vaccinated suffered greatly, and many ugly sores could be seen. But the medical records of Andersonville show but four deaths from vaccination. …
This extract is interesting for its temper, if not for the ignorance displayed therein. The fact that there were but four victims from vaccination seems to fully disprove the assertion that the virus was impure. Under the circumstances the number of deaths was certainly small, and shows the virus to have been at least of average quality. The four deaths demonstrate, if anything, the risk of vaccinating, and might furnish grounds for an assertion that vaccination is dangerous to health. But, while the vaccination of prisoners resulted in the loss of life, did the order requiring such vindication indicate a wicked and cruel purpose to destroy life, or did it show an earnest desire on the part of the Confederates to protect the prisoners against the ravages of the scourge, just as is now done in the cities of the North, though no one is in danger of contagion?
Herman A. Braun, Andersonville, an Object Lesson on Protection: A Critical Sketch (Milwaukee, WI: C. D. Fahsel Publishing Company, 1892), 123, 124.
Final thoughts
Four important points to glean from the trial of Captain Wirz.
First, the trial exposed the dangers of vaccination.
Per eyewitness testimony, I find that the verdict against Captain Wirz was legit, and that many Union soldiers were murdered via vaccination.
But even if the trial of Henry Wirz was a sham, as some assert, we are still faced by the admission of Andersonville’s own medical records showing four deaths from vaccination. Thus either way, the fact that vaccination is deadly still comes out.
Second, the trial exposed the pretense of “correlation is not causation.”
In the trial, the dangerous effects of vaccination were not ignored by pretending that they were all coincidental. The prosecution simply considered the health of many prisoners before and after vaccination. The trial exposes the dishonesty of today’s vaccinators who assure us that vaccines are safe.
Third, the trial served as a warning that vaccination can be used for malevolent purposes.
The trial of Henry Wirz is an example of how vaccination can easily be a deliberate tool of murder — and served as a warning to mankind of its potential for great evil. But instead of heading such a warning, we now find vaccination, via the COVID shot, being used in perhaps the greatest global genocide in the history of mankind.
(Not that vaccination wasn’t deadly poison to begin with. From the outset, vaccination was already causing great suffering and death. It was unnecessary and counterproductive, and yet insanely accepted for “the greater good.” It was just that Captain Wirz’s vaccination was more poisonous and shown to be have been done with malicious intent.
(But this really speaks to the hypocrisy of the North in the trial. What was really implied is that vaccine murder is acceptable to a certain degree, when the intentions are good. Wirz’s crime is that his version of vaccine murder exceeded what was culturally acceptable.
(To be sure, Wirz crime was worse, as it included malevolence. However, being a violation of God’s law, vaccination is always wrong, and should be completely criminalized. “Good intentions” do not make it right. Murder is murder.)
Fourth, the trial is a precedent for courts to try and punish vaccinators.
What is important about the trial is that it serves as a precedent for legally trying and punishing vaccinators — maybe even with the death penalty. As we’ve said, Wirz’s trial should have been more consistent regarding punishing vaccinators; there was hypocrisy. But it is a start.
Vaccination should be criminalized, and vaccinators and those who push vaccines need to be brought to justice — especially those who know exactly the evils that vaccines cause, and yet push them anyway. Their fate should be no different than that of Wirz.
When it comes to the COVID death shot, this would include a lot of people. But also, when it comes to other vaccines, there are still a great many culpable — those who are aware that vaccination, for instance, causes SIDS and autism.
In the end, let the state again pick up the sword regarding punishing vaccination — and let the vaccinators, for all of our sakes, hear and fear.
Preparations for the hanging of Henry Wirz
Appendix
REPORT OF THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL.
War DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF MILITARY JUSTICE,
October 31 , 1865.
The annals of our race present nowhere and at no time a darker field of crime than that of Andersonville, and it is fortunate for the interests alike of public justice and of historic truth, that from this field the veil has been so faithfully and so completely lifted. All the horrors of this pandemonium of the rebellion are laid bare to us in the broad, steady light of the testimony of some 150 witnesses who spoke what they had seen and heard and suffered, and whose evidence, given under oath and subjected to cross-examination and to every other test which human experience has devised for the ascertainment of truth, must be accepted as affording an immovable foundation for the sentence pronounced.
House of Representitives, Trial of Henry Wirz, Ex. Doc. No. 23 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868), 813.
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